Foliar application of sorbitol is a shotgun approach to alleviate the adverse effects of salinity stress on two varieties of wheat (triticumaestivuml.)

The current experiment was designed to alleviate the detrimental effects of salt stress on two varieties of Wheat i.e. Johar 2016 (V1) and Anaj 2017 (V2). Sorbitol was used by foliar application method to bring under control the negative impacts of NaCl stress on plants. Salt was applied at concentration of 150mM and Sorbitol was used in three concentrations (50, 75 and 100mM). Sorbitol application was done three times on plants with the interval of one week. All the morphological, physiological and yield parameters were recorded. The experimental design was completely randomized and for the statistical analysis, CoStat software was used. The findings of the experiment concluded that the application of sorbitol on plants proved beneficial in salt stress as well as under normal conditions. Foliar application of sorbitol helped to ameliorate the negative impacts of NaCl stress on plants. It was noticed that sorbitol caused a significant increase in the growth of plants in salt stress and normal conditions. Almost all the growth parameters were increased after sorbitol's application. The results concluded that the 50mM and 75mM concentration of sorbitol gave the best results to overcome the effects of NaCl stress. All the treatments of sorbitol improved the growth parameters of plants under normal conditions but the best results were observed at 50mM and 75mM.