Factors Affecting Microcuttings of Stevia Using a Mist-Chamber Propagation Box

Table 15

Mean leaf number of three varieties treated with 50% and 100% shade treatments from day 6 to day 14.

Variety	Shade	Leaf number
		Day 6	Day 8	Day 10	Day 12	Day 14
Mergong	0 (control)	0.80 ± 0.80	0.80 ± 0.80	0.80 ± 0.80	0.80 ± 0.80	1.60 ± 0.75^c
	50	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	0.80 ± 0.80	1.20 ± 1.20	1.20 ± 1.20^cd
	100	0.20 ± 0.20	0.20 ± 0.20	0.20 ± 0.20	0.80 ± 0.80	0.80 ± 0.80^d
MS007	0 (control)	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	0.80 ± 0.80	2.20 ± 1.50^bc
	50	0.80 ± 0.80	1.20 ± 1.20	2.00 ± 1.10	2.20 ± 1.11	2.40 ± 1.12^b
	100	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
MS012	0 (control)	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	0.80 ± 0.80	1.40 ± 0.75	2.20 ± 0.80^bc
	50	1.60 ± 0.40	2.40 ± 0.40	3.00 ± 0.45	3.00 ± 0.45	3.00 ± 0.45^a
	100	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00

Note. Mean value within a column followed by the same letter shows no significant difference at 𝑃<0.05 using Tukey test.