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

Table 4

Dry matter production on different Si method applications at 55 and 75 DAT in rice plants.

Biomass partitioning	Leaf (g hill^-1)		Culm (g hill^-1)		Root (g hill^-1)		Total (g hill^-1)		Root : shoot ratio
DAT	55	75	55	75	55	75	55	75	55	75
Control	2.9b	16.9a	4.7b	14.6b	8.7c	22.3b	16.3c	53.8b	0.49c	0.72c
Topdressing	6.4a	14.4b	5.9b	10.5c	12.0b	24.0b	24.2b	48.9b	0.98b	0.97a
Foliar spray	7.5a	16.3a	10.5a	18.8a	25.4a	28.1a	43.4a	63.2a	1.41a	0.80b
LSD ()	0.57	2.12	1.88	1.99	0.69	3.77	1.37	0.69	3.33	2.12
CV	7.98	8.62	5.67	7.65	7.64	6.03	10.09	7.46	5.64	3.49

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.