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

Table 3

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) table for number of leaves, leaf succulence, leaf area, and relative water contents of leaf recorded at vegetative stage of sunflower grown under different levels of rhizospheric arsenic.

Source	DF	Mean square
		Number of leaves	Leaf area	Leaf succulence	RWC leaf
Varieties (V)	1	0.14^ns	2110.33	9.44	878.08
Salts (S)	1	0.22^ns	713.79	0.91^ns	24.71^ns
Levels (L)	5	21.96	569.25	0.59^ns	154.04
V × S	1	1.38^ns	1208.03	6.41	214.11
V × L	5	0.67^ns	769.14	0.15^ns	27.25^ns
S × L	5	1.29^ns	243.95	0.27^ns	133.07
V × S × L	5	0.72^ns	372.51	0.39^ns	30.56^ns
Error	48	1.18	13.17	0.64	27.55

Significant (). Highly significant (). ^nsNonsignificant (). RWC = Relative water contents.