Table 5 Sodium (mg g-1 DW) content in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) plants raised using soil substrate at different developmental stages treated with leachates of dry leaves and flowers of Tagetes erecta L.

From: Modulation of nitrogen metabolising enzymes and the photosynthetic pigments in wheat upon exogenous application of marigold leachates

Treatments

Preflowering (55 DAS)

Flowering (85 DAS)

Flag leaf

Stem

Root

Flag leaf

Stem

Root

Control

0.19 ± 0.015c

0.16 ± 0.007d

0.28 ± 0.002d

0.46 ± 0.03d

0.38 ± 0.01e

0.71 ± 0.01d

1% DLL

0.21 ± 0.002a

0.17 ± 0.002a

0.30 ± 0.004a

0.54 ± 0.02a

0.46 ± 0.02a

0.78 ± 0.01a

5% DLL

0.22 ± 0.004ab

0.17 ± 0.003bc

0.31 ± 0.003bc

0.60 ± 0.01b

0.54 ± 0.01bc

0.86 ± 0.02b

10% DLL

0.23 ± 0.005bc

0.19 ± 0.003bc

0.34 ± 0.005c

0.67 ± 0.02c

0.59 ± 0.02d

0.90 ± 0.01c

1% DFL

0.21 ± 0.001a

0.17 ± 0.003a

0.31 ± 0.005a

0.47 ± 0.02b

0.45 ± 0.01b

0.80 ± 0.02a

5% DFL

0.21 ± 0.001ab

0.18 ± 0.002b

0.32 ± 0.005b

0.56 ± 0.02bc

0.51 ± 0.01c

0.85 ± 0.01b

10% DFL

0.23 ± 0.002bc

0.19 ± 0.002c

0.35 ± 0.006bc

0.61 ± 0.01d

0.55 ± 0.01d

0.91 ± 0.01c

  1. Data followed by same letters are not significantly different at p < 0.05.