Effects of Short-Day and Gibberellic Acid Treatments on Summer Vegetative Propagation of Napier Grass (Pennisetum purpureum Schumach)

Table 1

Effect of treatment and nodal position on nursery plant attributes in dwarf (DL) Napier grass (Exp. 1).

(a) 5-day treatment

	Plant attribute
	Internode length (mm)	Tiller bud length (mm)	Tiller bud diameter (mm)	Rooting (%)
Treatment	ns
Nodal position
Interaction of treatment × nodal position
C	28.64	8.28	3.24	0.00
SD	32.73	8.54	3.31	0.00
GA-SD	35.48	15.27	4.02	6.25

(b) 10-day treatment

	Plant attribute
	Internode length (mm)	Tiller bud length (mm)	Tiller bud diameter (mm)	Rooting (%)
Treatment	ns
Nodal position
Interaction of treatment × nodal position			ns
C	28.12	7.40	3.27	0.00
SD	31.10	8.67	3.88	1.85
GA-SD	28.09	12.89	4.13	9.26

(c) 20-day treatment

	Plant attribute
	Internode length (mm)	Tiller bud length (mm)	Tiller bud diameter (mm)	Rooting (%)
Treatment				ns
Nodal position
Interaction of treatment × nodal position			ns
C	31.97	9.69	3.57	2.27
SD	27.35	8.48	3.06	0.00
GA-SD	21.27	8.44	2.93	0.00

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Values with different letters indicate the significant difference by the Bonferroni test at the 5% level.