Research Article
Effect of Different Rates of N and Intrarow Spacing on Growth Performance of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) in Gurage Zone, Wolkite University, Ethiopia
Table 1
Effect of N and intrarow spacing on leaf length and leaf number per plant of lettuce.
| Factors | Treatment | Leaf length (cm) | Leaf number |
| Nitrogen | 0 kg/ha | (N0) | 11.06a | 15.40a | 50 kg/ha | (N1) | 14.96b | 17.68b | 100 kg/ha | (N2) | 20.50c | 18.76c | 150 kg/ha | (N3) | 23.12d | 16.66c | LSD (0.05) | 0.608 | 0.430 |
| Spacing | 15 × 30 cm | (S1) | 16.25a | 16.03a | 20 × 30 cm | (S2) | 18.35b | 17.44b | 25 × 30 cm | (S3) | 17.62c | 19.40c | LSD (0.05) | 0.526 | 0.372 |
| Nitrogen spacing | N0S1 | | 11.22a | 14.31a | N0S2 | | 10.58a | 17.39a | N0S3 | | 11.37a | 14.51a | N1S1 | | 15.89b | 15.02b | N1S2 | | 14.47b | 16.68b | N1S3 | | 14.51c | 21.33b | N2S1 | | 17.16d | 18.10bc | N2S2 | | 22.41e | 18.49cd | N2S3 | | 21.92f | 19.70d | N3S1 | | 20.74f | 16.70e | N3S2 | | 25.94f | 17.22f | N3S3 | | 22.67g | 22.06f | LSD (0.05) | | 1.052 | 0.745 |
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Means followed by the same letter within a column are not significantly different from each other at 5% level of significance.
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