Investigation of the Allelopathic Effect of Matricaria chamomilla L. Parts’ Aqueous Extracts on Germination and Seedling Growth of Two Moroccan Varieties of Durum Wheat

Table 1

Effects of Chamomile aqueous extracts on germination percentage (%), mean.

	Chamomile parts	E.C (g·L^−1)	Germination percentage (%)	MGT (days)	T50 (days)	SVI (seed vigour index)
Var. kanakis	Flowers	0	95.00 ± 1.67	4.26 ± 0.01	3.70 ± 0.20	2981 ± 64.93
		50	96.67 ± 0.00 ns	3.62 ± 0.0	3.13 ± 0.05 ns	3469 ± 52.67 ns
		100	100.0 ± 0.00 ns	3.48 ± 0.08	3.07 ± 0.14 ns	4110 ± 32.13
	Leaves	50	81.67 ± 1.66 ns	3.75 ± 0.03	3.13 ± 0.20 ns	2210 ± 205.6 ns
		100	65.00 ± 8.33	4.34 ± 0.12 ns	3.84 ± 0.04 ns	1635 ± 467.9
	Roots	50	70.00 ± 3.33	5.16 ± 0.01	4.92 ± 0.25 ns	1210 ± 149.1
		100	48.34 ± 1.66	5.68 ± 0.18	5.65 ± 0.55	523.1 ± 8.86
Var. riyad	Flowers	0	98.34 ± 1.66	3.62 ± 0.17	2.97 ± 0.28	3715 ± 39.60
		50	90.00 ± 3.33 ns	3.50 ± 0.11 ns	2.98 ± 0.10 ns	3341 ± 97.96 ns
		100	93.34 ± 3.33 ns	3.07 ± 0.03 ns	2.51 ± 0.23 ns	3715 ± 192.4 ns
	Leaves	50	63.33 ± 10.0	3.98 ± 0.10 ns	3.23 ± 0.09 ns	1752 ± 44.4
		100	53.34 ± 3.33	4.76 ± 0.23	4.44 ± 0.31	1092 ± 184.0
	Roots	50	55.00 ± 1.67	5.27 ± 0.16	5.00 ± 0.17	1094 ± 25.04
		100	30.00 ± 3.33	5.67 ± 0.07	5.53 ± 0.13	371.4 ± 80.70

Note: data are expressed as mean ± SEM, n = 30, ns: not significant; ; ; . E.C: extract concentration germination time (MGT), T50, and seed vigour index (SVI) of the studied varieties.