Figure 5

The solitary and interaction effects of CH and IR on (A) Iron content in leaves, (B) Iron content in roots, (C) Manganese content in leaves, and (D) Manganese content in roots at two seasons of 2021/2022. Vertical bars represent ± standard error (SE) of the means. Different letters in the bars indicate significant differences between treatments at P ≤ 0.05 level by the Tukey’s test. Abbreviations: Control (tap water applications); CH (foliar chitosan applications at a rate of 500 mg L−1); IR100% (100% of the irrigation water requirements- represent alkali condition); IR 70% (70% of the irrigation water requirements- represent mixed drought-alkali conditions).