Effects of Presowing Pulsed Electromagnetic Treatment of Tomato Seed on Growth, Yield, and Lycopene Content

Table 1

Analysis of variance (𝐹 values).

(a)

	Percentage of successfully transplanted tomatoes (%)	Plant height (cm)	Shoot diameter (mm)	Number of leaves per plant	Fresh weight (g)
Year	1.31^ns	0.008^ns	8.90^ns	10.02^ns	10.91^ns
Time	365.22^∗∗∗	1869.73^∗∗∗	2.49^ns	693.80^∗∗∗	1899.14^∗∗∗
Year ∗ time	0.90^ns	0.04^ns	2.87^ns	0.50^ns	0.50^ns

(b)

	Dry weight (g)	Number of flowers in the second week	Yield (g per plant)	Lycopene content (𝜇g/100 g fresh weight)
Year	0.03^ns	11.79^ns	6.20^ns	0.34^ns
Time	133.17^∗∗∗	6.33^∗∗∗	3924.19^∗∗∗	0.34^ns
Year ∗ time	0.22^ns	0.43^ns	0.84^ns	0.10^ns

∗,∗∗,∗∗∗Significance at 0.05, 0.01, and 0.001; ns: not significant.