## 3 Results
### Advanced Stage of Development--Controls  
The Treemap diagram in Figure 6 shows the mean value of the eight agronomic traits for each treatment of both cultivars measured at the end of the experimental procedure and refers to the plants that did not receive any salinity treatment (controls). In the commercial variety, the biopriming treatment (T3) showed the highest mean values in six of the eight traits: FWS, DWS, FWR, RL, SL and BIO, with statistically significant differences from the no-priming treatment (T1) in three of them, FWS (36.9%), SL (50.3%) and RL (34.6%). The hydropriming-biopriming treatment (T4) also presented high mean values with a statistically significant difference from no-priming treatment (T1), on the RL (29.6%) and on the SL (24.6%). The hydropriming treatment (T2) provided high mean values with statistically significant difference from the no-priming treatment (T1) on SL (31.8%). It is worth noting that the no-priming (T1) treatment gave the highest mean values in DWR and R/S with statistically significant differences from the hydropriming (T2) and biopriming (T3) treatments, respectively. In the local variety the treatments biopriming (T3), hydropriming-biopriming (T4), and hydropriming (T2) gave higher values in almost all agronomic traits compared to the no-priming (T1) treatment with statistically significant differences per trait. Specifically, the biopriming (T3) treatment improved FWS (100.1%), DWS (129.7%), FWR (172%), DWR (187.9%), RL (39.8%) BIO (136.7%). Regarding R/S, the biopriming treatment (T3) also gave the highest mean value compared to the other treatments, albeit with no statistically significant differences. The hydropriming-biopriming treatment (T4) showed statistically significant differences from no-priming treatment (T1) for FWS (51%), FWR (44.2%), and BIO (98.9%). The hydropriming treatment (T2) showed statistically significant differences from the no-priming treatment (T1) for FWR (60.2%). Comparing the priming treatments among the cultivars, the no-priming  
Figure 5: Mean values of the NDVI of the local variety for each treatment, per time point (DAS), at the three salinity levels. Different colours highlight different salinity treatments. Different Latin letters indicate significant differences according to the Least Significant Difference (LSD) test at \(p<0.05\). T1 10: no-priming/salinity level 0, T2 10: hydropriming/salinity level 0, T3 10: biopriming/salinity level 0, T4 10: hydropriming–biopriming/salinity level 0, T1 180: no-priming/salinity level 80, T2 180: hydropriming/salinity level 80, T3 180: biopriming/salinity level 80, T4 180: hydropriming-biopriming/salinity level 80, T1 160: no-priming/salinity level 160, T2 160: hydropriming/salinity level 160, T3 1160: biopriming/salinity level 160, T4 160: hydropriming–biopriming/salinity level 160. 25 DAS: 25 days after sowing, 36 DAS: 36 days after sowing, 52 DAS: 45 days after sowing.  
treatment (T1) gave lower values to the local cultivar with statistically significant differences compared to the commercial cultivar in the traits FWR, DWS, DWR and BIO. On the other hand, SL presented a significantly higher value than the commercial cultivar. The biopriming treatment (T3) gave significantly higher values in the local variety compared to the commercial variety in the traits FWR, DWR, RL and R/S. The hydropriming-biopriming treatment (T4) provided statistically greater values for the local variety compared to the commercial variety in DWS, SL and BIO and significantly lower value for RL. No significant differences were observed in the hydropriming treatment (T2) (Figure S3).