Germination of Primed Seed under NaCl Stress in Wheat

Table 2

Means comparison of the effect of priming and NaCl concentration on attributes of germination.

Treatment	Attributes of germination
	FG	LG	CVG	GRI	MGT
Primed seed (PEG6000 at −1 MPa)	65.0^a	78.3^a	32.5^a	29.5^a	3.2^a
Normal seeds	56.4^b	72.1^b	28.4^b	24.5^b	3.6^b
NaCl concentration (mM)
0	84.0^a	92.0^a	37.4^a	38.2^a	2.7^a
50	82.5^a	91.0^a	36.4^a	37.0^a	2.8^a
100	68.8^b	89.8^a	29.0^b	30.5^b	3.5^b
150	38.0^c	55.5^b	25.4^c	16.1^c	4.0^c
200	30.2^c	47.8^c	25.2^c	13.3^c	4.2^c

Means within a column with common characters are not significant at 𝑃<0.05.