Screening of crops for salt tolerance is important to sustain food production under salt stress. Ten sugarcane
genotypes were grown in solution with adding nil and 100 mM NaC!. Various plant nutrients were supplied by
using Johnson's nutrient solution. Sugarcane genotypes grown for 28 days at two levels of salinity i.e. 1.0 & 10
dS m' differed significantly in their biomass and K+/Na+ ratio. Addition of 100 mM NaCI (EC = 10 dS m') to root
medium significantly (P <0.05) increased Na" concentration and decreased plant biomass accumulation. The total
dry matter of ten sugarcane genotypes significantly correlated with K+/Na+ ratio (r = 0.81). The genotypes HSF
240 and CP 77-400 produced maximum biomass and K+/Na+ ratio and proved to be salt tolerant. Various salt
sensitive genotypes of sugarcane were CPF 243 > SPF 213 > SPF 245 > SPF 242 ~ SPF 244.
