An investigation on possible effect of leaching fractions physiological responses of hot pepper plants to irrigation water salinity

Table 4 Dry biomasses of leaves and roots (g plant⁻¹) and Na⁺ content (mg g⁻¹ DW) in hot pepper leaves measured at the end of the experiment subjected to varying levels of irrigation water salinity (EC_iw, dS m^− 1) and two leaching fractions (LF). Mean values were calculated from four replications

Factors	Dry biomass of leaves	Dry biomass of roots	Na⁺ content
EC_iw
0.9	14.3a	5.5a	2.73c
4.7	9.8b	3.4b	8.53b
7.0	7.0c	2.5c	12.60a
LF
0.17	9.6b	3.6	8.51a
0.29	11.1a	4.1	7.39b
ANOVA
LF	*	NS	*
EC_iw	***	***	***
LF × EC_iw	NS	**	NS

*, ** and *** represent significant differences between means at 0.05, 0.01 and 0.001 level of probability, respectively; NS, no significant. Different letters within a column indicate significant difference at P < 0.05 by Duncan’s multiple range tests

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