Alleviation of the adverse effects of NaCl stress on tomato seedlings (Solanum lycopersicum L.) by Trichoderma viride through the antioxidative defense system

Botanical Studies

Table 5 Effects of NaCl stress and T. viride on morphological traits of tomato plants under greenhouse conditions

Treatments	Shoot height (cm)	Root length (cm)	Shoot FW (g)	Root FW (g)	Leaves number	Shoot DW (g)	Root DW (g)
T₀	17.5 ± 0.926b	5.5 ± 0.291c	6.1 ± 0.322b	1.21 ± 0.064b	9.33 ± 0.494a	0.8021 ± 0.042b	0.1666 ± 0.0088b
T₁	21.5 ± 1.137a	7 ± 0.37a	8.23 ± 0.435a	1.39 ± 0.073a	9.66 ± 0.511a	1.1362 ± 0.061a	0.2407 ± 0.0127a
T₂	14 ± 0.74c	5.1 ± 0.269c	5.02 ± 0.266cd	0.925 ± 0.049c	7 ± 0.37bc	0.5939 ± 0.031cd	0.1046 ± 0.0055c
T₃	16 ± 0.85bc	6.5 ± 0.374ab	5.62 ± 0.297bc	1.13 ± 0.059b	8 ± 0.423b	0.6798 ± 0.036c	0.1527 ± 0.008b
T₄	11 ± 0.58d	4 ± 0.212d	3.68 ± 0.195e	0.538 ± 0.028e	6 ± 0.317c	0.5125 ± 0.027d	0.0785 ± 0.0041d
T₅	14.5 ± 0.77c	6 ± 0.317bc	4.45 ± 0.235de	0.725 ± 0.038d	7.5 ± 0.396b	0.5867 ± 0.031cd	0.0979 ± 0.0052cd

T₀, T₂ and T₄ represent tomato plants grown under 0, 50 and 100 mM NaCl stress, while T₁, T₃ and T₅ represent tomato plants grown with T. viride under 0, 50 and 100 mM NaCl stress
^*Data are mean of 5 replicates ± standard error
Different letters in the same column mean significant difference at the p < 0.05 level by Duncan’s new multiple range test