Screening Selected Solanum Plants as Potential Rootstocks for the Management of Root-Knot Nematodes (Meloidogyne incognita)

Table 5

Mean fresh and dry weights of shoot and roots of rootstocks after 12 weeks of root-knot nematode infestation.

Treatment	Fresh shoot weight (g)	Dry shoot weight (g)	Fresh root weight (g)	Dry root weight (g)
Year 1 (dry season)
Sam	40.60^a	8.74^a	3.74^a	0.96^a
Mon	53.70^a	11.13^a	5.17^ab	1.42^ab
S. M	159.10^ab	33.78^ab	14.05^b	5.20^b
S. A	331.40^b	76.73^b	39.72^c	16.81^c
Year 2 (rainy season)
Sam	257.74^a	47.74^a	25.13^a	10.65^a
Mon	325.28^ab	65.02^a	27.09^a	12.09^a
S. M	357.39^b	62.14^a	24.74^a	12.67^a
S. A	255.44^a	63.51^a	32.31^a	19.43^b

Means having different letters in a column differ significantly (). Rootstocks: Sam = Samrudhi F1; Mon = Mongal F1; S. M = S. macrocarpon; S.A = S. aethiopicum.