Impact of Addition of FGDB as a Soil Amendment on Physical and Chemical Properties of an Alkali Soil and Crop Yield of Maize in Northern China Coastal Plain

Table 9

Effect of FGDB on germination percentage, plant height, and crop yield during two cropping years.

	Germination percentage (%)		Plant height (cm)		Crop yield (kg·hm^−2)
	2011	2012	2011	2012	2011	2012
T0	56.34 ± 1.89^c	60.23 ± 1.45^c	105.26 ± 1.56^c	108.31 ± 1.47^c	827.65 ± 32.76^c	1050.15 ± 44.82^d
T1	62.35 ± 1.09^b	69.97 ± 1.78^b	119.70 ± 3.41^b	124.21 ± 2.96^b	1018.22 ± 43.13^b	1574.17 ± 53.56^b
T2	64.87 ± 2.15^b	71.11 ± 1.33^b	124.51 ± 2.94^b	129.45 ± 2.57^b	1113.47 ± 42.10^a	1584.47 ± 25.16^b
T3	79.02 ± 3.07^a	91.25 ± 2.27^a	138.52 ± 1.30^a	154.52 ± 1.30^d	1195.56 ± 36.47^a	1678.06 ± 32.28^a
T4	77.50 ± 2.89^a	88.32 ± 2.56^a	135.89 ± 2.24^a	143.78 ± 2.14^a	1097.36 ± 53.28^b	1446.98 ± 40.72^c

Letters denote statistically significant differences across treatments ().