Figure 3

Salinity-induced injury is highly correlated with leaf Na⁺concentrations across the entire species. (A). The visual SES injury score was highly correlated with leaf Na⁺ concentration across all cultivar-groups of O. sativa, and in all tested accessions of O. glaberrima. The linear regression line is shown, together with ± SE intervals. However, no such relationship was seen with leaf K⁺ concentration (B) or root Na⁺ concentration (C). Likewise, there was no relationship between leaf Na⁺ and K⁺ concentrations (D ratio/FL478, mmol.gDW^-1 data). Similar relationships were seen in both the youngest and second-youngest expanded leaf (at time of salinisation; L5 and L6 in these data, and the only leaves still photosynthetically active; leaf 6 data not shown). FL478 was used as the tolerant check.