Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) to Identify Salt-Tolerance QTLs Carrying Novel Candidate Genes in Rice During Early Vegetative Stage

Rice

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of different traits under normal and salt stress conditions and the effect of salt stress on the studied traits

	SL (cm)	RL (cm)	SFW (mg)	RFW (mg)	SDW (mg)	RDW (mg)	TW (%)	RWC (%)
Mean (normal)	12.04	10.50	215.12	146.97	30.84	19.65	231.28	92.05
Min (normal)	4.57	9.20	84.80	15.00	6.75	3.70	91.50	76.76
Max (normal)	25.46	31.62	351.50	362.60	45.40	39.10	418.60	96.95
Sd (normal)	2.52	4.16	41.62	59.47	5.75	6.88	44.85	5.12
Mean (salt)	12.17	7.35	205.47	130.12	27.94	17.96	228.30	88.68
Min (salt)	6.92	2.00	96.86	47.70	15.90	5.50	112.70	62.75
Max (salt)	18.14	17.70	350.59	278.00	55.66	43.50	425.80	99.41
Sd (salt)	2.04	2.10	40.82	44.59	5.91	6.11	45.51	4.99
Effect of salt stress (%)	+ 1.1^ns	−30.0^b	−4.5^a	−11.5^b	−9.4^a	−8.6^a	−1.3^ns	− 3.7^a

ns Non-significant effects at 5% level
^aand ^b indicating significance at 5% and 1% level of probability, respectively