Silicon Improves Yield Performance by Enhancement in Physiological Responses, Crop Imagery, and Leaf and Culm Sheath Morphology in New Rice Line, PadiU Putra

Table 2

Diameter and length of internodes on different Si method applications at 55 and 75 DAT in rice plants.

Treatment	Diameter of internodes at 20 cm (mm)		Length of internodes (mm)
	DAT
	55	75	55	75
Control	2.72a	4.9a	35.83b	63.74a
Topdressing	2.66a	3.5c	43.85a	55.99b
Foliar spray	2.04a	4.0b	30.51c	58.27b
LSD ()	0.75	0.45	5.38	3.52
CV	13.31	4.73	7.73	2.62

Mean values followed by the same letters within a column are not significantly different at by the LSD test. DAT: days after transplanting; CV: coefficient of variation.