Impact of Inorganic Arsenicals on Vegetative Growth of Two Pakistani Origins Sunflower Cultivars

Table 1

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) table for shoot length, root length, shoot : root ratio, and moisture contents in shoot and root of sunflower cultivars under various arsenic levels.

Source	DF	Mean square
		Shoot length (cm)	Root length (cm)	Shoot : root ratio	Moisture contents in shoot	Moisture contents in root
Varieties (V)	1	593.97	22.22	1.21	1525434	2374217
Salts (S)	1	1.02^ns	5.56^ns	0.24	73997^ns	308351
Levels (L)	5	492.52	125.30	0.03^ns	1322946	207840
V × S	1	4.60^ns	14.22^ns	0.69	4572^ns	20231^ns
V × L	5	7.76^ns	2.32^ns	0.13	397001	62792
S × L	5	38.49	4.98^ns	0.06^ns	186125	36827^ns
V × S × L	5	7.08^ns	2.32^ns	0.07^ns	78990	96389
Error	48	7.31	3.90	0.04	27099	23876

Significant (). Highly significant (). ^nsNonsignificant ().