Effect of Storage Conditions and Storage Periods on Seed Germination in Eleven Populations of Swertia chirayita: A Critically Endangered Medicinal Herb in Himalaya

Table 2

Result of multivariate ANOVA, showing the effect of populations, storage conditions, and storage periods and their interaction on seed germination and mean germination time in Swertia chirayita (using General Linear Model in SPSS 10.0 for windows; SPSS Inc. 1989).

Source	𝐹	Sig.	𝐹	Sig.
	Germination (%)		Mean germination time
Population (P)	14.443	.000	42.392	.000
Storage condition (SC)	279.387	.000	716.784	.000
Storage period (SP)	1038.901	.000	519.862	.000
P × SC	8.914	.000	9.144	.000
P × SP	3.993	.000	5.728	.000
SC × SP	6.789	.000	147.827	.000
P × SC × SP	1.810	.001	4.878	.000