The Roswelll Autopsy

I have today done an autopsy on one of my beans (without the presence of any rheumy eyed aliens or reference to Area 51), the shoots are quite green still and are about two inches in length with the beginnings of leaves on the end.
However they do not look overly healthy with the outer shell being very brown and shrivelled which has allowed a somewhat small white bean to emerge.
I have cut the bean in half from the shoot downwards, the inside of the bean is a creamy white colour and is a little like a water chesnut in texture. Inside of the beans there are several brown rings (simillar to the rings in a tree stump), I am unsure of why these are present, I wonder if perhaps this is due to the salt which is rotting the beans cell structure by depleating its water intake and ability to hold the water within the cells.
The beans roots are now very brown in colour and shrivelled, I think this is partly because they have been unable to root themselves and also because of the salt effecting the beans growth.

I have quite enjoyed my bean blog, I have not grown anything from scratch for a while, I think I will not be watering my house plants with a salt water solution anytime soon!
On the whole my results were as I thought they may be from the research I carried out on the subjects of plants and beans and the use of salt solution watering.
It has also made me think about my own salt intake in my own diet and the effect it could have on my insides as it effected the beans insides.