point of view, Pokkali showed the highest radical dry
weight at 4 dS m-1 as compared to all other varieties. At 8
dS m-1 EC level IR-20 showed highest radical dry weight
and lowest was observed by MR68, MR220 and MR29.
Varieties MR211, Pokkali, MR52 and MR232 produced
second highest radical dry weight at that salinity level.
Similarly, Jamil and Rha (2007) observed that shoot
length, root lengths and dry weight were decreased with
increasing salt stress. Trangenic lines T- 99 and T- 112
had shown greater performance at early seedling growth
as compared to two other trangenic lines T- 115 and T-
121.