Mungbean is very important legume crop. Short growth duration, adjustment in different cropping rotations, higher protein profile and nitrogen fixing properties further highlights the importance of this crop. Salinity is very damaging abiotic stress which effects the crop plants. To increase the productivity of mungbean it is very important that saline areas shoul d be explored for mungbean cultivation. Seventeen mungbean genotypes were evaluated under three salinity treatments and grouped into tolerant and susceptible genotypes. Three different saline treatments were imposed under hydroponic growth medium. Salinity treatments were 7dsm-1 and 14dsm -1 alongwith normal water treatment. Different morphological and biochemical parameters like root length, shoot length, root weight, shoot weight, chlorophyll -a, chlorophyll-b and phenolic contents were targeted for evaluat ion of mungbean response . Analysis of variance for factorial treatment structure under completely randomized block design, Dunnett's multiple comparisons with a control treatment and K-mean cluster analysis were used for uncovering the responses of mungbean genotypes under diverse saline conditions. Genotypic and treatment effects were found significant for various traits and mean comparison showed that increased level of salt stress showed severely adverse effects on morphological, physiological and bioche mical parameters of mungbean. AUM-18 and AUM-24 were tolerant while AUM562 -1 was most susceptible genotype under all subjected salinity treatments according to the grouping of K-mean cluster analysis.
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