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

Table 2

Effect of treatment and nodal position on nursery plant attributes in three varieties of Napier grass (Exp. 2).

(a) Variety DL

	Plant attribute
	Internode length (mm)	Tiller bud length (mm)	Tiller bud diameter (mm)	Rooting (%)
Treatment				ns
Nodal position			ns
Interaction of treatment × nodal position			ns	ns
C	33.56	8.39	3.26	13.55
GA-SD	65.65	14.45	3.55	24.07

(b) Variety DE

	Plant attribute
	Internode length (mm)	Tiller bud length (mm)	Tiller bud diameter (mm)	Rooting (%)
Treatment			ns
Nodal position			ns
Interaction of treatment × nodal position			ns
C	44.03	9.22	3.26	29.16
GA-SD	101.11	17.62	3.63	57.91

(c) Variety ME

	Plant attribute
	Internode length (mm)	Tiller bud length (mm)	Tiller bud diameter (mm)	Rooting (%)
Treatment		ns		ns
Nodal position
Interaction of treatment × nodal position			ns	ns
C	61.88	12.12	4.45	53.79
GA-SD	95.34	15.05	3.89	50.68

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