Research Article
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 |
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(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 |
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(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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, , and . Values with different letters indicate the significant difference by the Bonferroni test at the 5% level.
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