The Residual Effect of Pre-Rice Green Manuring on a Succeeding Wheat Crop (Triticum aestivum L.) in the Rice-Wheat Cropping System in Banke, Nepal

Table 4

Effect of chemical fertilizers and green manure treatments on the plant height, spike length, number of grains/spike, and 1000-grain weight.

Treatments	Plant height (cm)	Spike length (cm)	No of grains/spike	1000-grain weight (g)
T 1	74.23^c	7.47^b	26^b	40.37^d
T 2	100.26^a	9.70^a	37^a	43.10^b
T 3	83.54^b	8.01^b	32.87^ab	42.10^c
T 4	98.75^a	9.79^a	40.53^a	44.01^a
T 5	100.67^a	9.67^a	41.87^a	44.70^a
T 6	100.70^a	9.53^a	36.8^a	44.60^a
T 7	102.65^a	9.38^a	39.27^a	44.48^a
T 8	97.77^a	9.40^a	34.87^ab	44.72^a
T 9	101.38^a	9.65^a	40.4^a	43.27^a
Grand mean	95.55	9.18	37	43.48
F-probability	<0.001	0.002	0.034	<0.001
SEM (±)	2.267	0.360	2.9	0.244
LSD0.05	6.798	1.078	8.6	0.732
CV (%)	4.1	6.8	13.5	1

SEM = standard error of mean; CV = coefficient of variation. Means followed by difference letters are significantly different among each other on DMRT at 5% level of significance.