Growth Performance and Nutrient Uptake of Oil Palm Seedling in Prenursery Stage as Influenced by Oil Palm Waste Compost in Growing Media

Table 5

Correlation matrix between dry shoot and root, nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), and magnesium (Mg) in soil and plant nutrient uptake as affected by compost addition in growing media.

Parameter		Root	Shoot	N	P	K	Ca	Mg	N	P	K	Ca	Mg
		Dry weight (g)		Uptake (mg plant^−1)					Soil before treatment (%)
Root	Dry weight (g)	1.00	0.57	0.81	0.68	0.84	0.78	0.40	0.68	0.58	−0.22	0.79	0.63
Shoot				0.80	0.84	0.74	0.86	0.67	0.70	0.61	−0.27	0.73	0.67
N	Uptake (mg plant^−1)				0.87	0.92	0.88	0.55	0.83	0.75	−0.31	0.86	0.84
P						0.82	0.82	0.57	0.84	0.77	−0.38	0.83	0.77
K							0.88	0.55	0.82	0.72	−0.17	0.86	0.80
Ca								0.61	0.74	0.64	−0.27	0.77	0.71
Mg									0.50	0.44	−0.31	0.54	0.45

Notes: significant at the level of 0.05, 0.01, and 0.0001 probability level, respectively; ns: not significant at .