Table 5 The impact of water treatment and zinc level as well as the interaction between them on wheat membrane stability index (MSI), membrane leakage (ML), relative water content (RWC), saturation water deficit (SWD), and water use efficiency for grains (WUEG) at the heading.

From: Influence of zinc foliar spray on growth, some important physiological processes, yield and yield attributes of bread wheat under water stress

Parameter

ML (%)

MSI (%)

RWC (%)

SWD (%)

WUEG (kg/m3)

Season

1

2

1

2

1

2

1

2

1

2

A. Irrigation

 Control

3.74

3.73

24.14

23.21

80.79

78.52

19.21

18.73

0.987

0.929

 Water Stress

4.28

4.16

17.37

16.96

63.14

61.70

36.86

35.80

0.888

0.868

 F test

*

*

**

*

**

**

**

**

**

ns

B. Zn levels ppm

 0

4.97a

4.77a

18.72d

17.97d

61.58d

59.11d

38.42d

36.89d

0.723d

0.694d

 100

4.52b

4.37a

19.60c

18.90c

67.64c

65.21c

32.36c

31.29c

0.827c

0.797c

 250

3.67c

3.62b

21.36b

20.77b

77.39b

75.62b

22.61b

22.38b

1.02b

0.967b

 500

2.89d

3.02c

23.34a

22.71a

81.24a

80.50a

18.76a

18.50a

1.18a

1.14a

 F test

**

**

**

**

**

**

**

**

**

**

C. Interactions

 A × B

ns

ns

*

*

**

**

**

**

*

*

  1. Based on CoHort/CoStat software, Version 6.311, various letters point to substantial variance between treatments at p 0.05, *significant at 0.05 possibility levels and **significant at 0.05 possibility levels.
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