Study of Wild and Transgenic Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Varieties in In Vitro Condition for Salt Stress Tolerance
Kalsoom1, Nasir Shah2, Muhammad Ibrahim3*, Tahira Bibi1, Kazim Ali4 and Zahir Shah2
1Department of Botany, Sardar Bahadur Khan (SBK) Women’s University, Quetta, Pakistan; 2Department of Entomology, Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences (LUAWMS), Lasbela, Pakistan; 3Directorate of Agriculture Research Fruit, Agriculture Research Institute (ARI), Quetta, Pakistan; 4National Institute for Genomics and Advanced Biotechnology (NIGAB), National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad, Pakistan.
*Correspondence | Muhammad Ibrahim, Directorate of Agriculture Research Fruit, Agriculture Research Institute (ARI), Quetta, Pakistan; Email:
[email protected]
Figure 1:
Mean No. of leaves (a), No. of shoots (b) and No. of nodes (c) plant-1 of potato varieties treated with different levels of NaCl. Vertical bars indicate ± SE of means. Means not sharing similar letters are significantly different by LSD test at P ≤ 0.05.
Figure 2:
Total means of various parameters of different potato varieties (a), and different NaCl concentrations (b). Means not sharing similar letters are significantly different by LSD test at P ≤ 0.05.
Figure 3:
Mean Sodium (a), Potassium (b) and Chlorophyll (c) contents of potato plants of different varieties treated with different levels of NaCl. Vertical bars indicate ± SE of means. Means not sharing similar letters are significantly different by LSD test at P ≤ 0.05.