Allelopathic Effects of Sphaeranthus suaveolens on Seed Germination and Seedling Growth of Phaseolus vulgaris and Oryza sativa

Table 1

Mean percentage germination (±SE) of P. vulgaris and O. sativa seeds (after 7 and 14 days, respectively) per treatment of S. suaveolens extracts of treatment in a laboratory and screen house experiments.

Concentration (%)	Laboratory experiment		Screen house experiment
	P. vulgaris	O. sativa	P. vulgaris	O. sativa
0	100 ± 0.2^a	90 ± 0.3^a	100 ± 0.1^a	100 ± 0^a
25	80 ± 0.4^b	90 ± 0.2^a	83 ± 0.4^b	83 ± 0.3^a
50	70 ± 0.4^c	50 ± 0.6^b	50 ± 0.4^c	33 ± 0.4^b
75	20 ± 0.4^d	10 ± 0.3^c	17 ± 0.2^d	17 ± 0.3^c
100	10 ± 0.2^e	0 ± 0.2^c	0 ± 0.2^e	0 ± 0^c
F-statistics	F(4, 15) = 142	F(4, 15) = 140	F(4, 15) = 53	F(4, 15) = 144

Values with different superscript letter(s) in the same column are significantly different by Fisher LSD at . .