Despite the imposition of ionic stress to approximately the same degree, based on the EC of the respective solutions in hydroponics and soil culture, the genotypic variation in salt tolerance was much greater in soil as evidenced by the much greater salt×genotype interaction. Screening in the pot experiment identified three salt-tolerant genotypes Capstan, Fleet, and WI4262. which were also identified as high-yielding genotypes at a saline site in the field. However, there was also a large discrepancy between hydroponic-based ranking of seedlings and soil-culture-based ranking of seedling when salt tolerance was expressed as relative growth. For example, the cultivars Fleet and WI4262 were two of the sensitive genotypes in hydroponics, but overall were the most tolerant and high-yielding varieties in soil and in the field.