The Effect of the Taro Corm Type and Storage on Morphophysiological Deterioration and Early Growth in the Field

Table 4

The effect of corm types and the storage period on growth vigor.

Corm sizes	Storage periods (weeks)
	0	2	4	6
	(%)
Corm	100.0a	73.3b	37.8cd	22.2d	58.3
Cormels	100.0a	48.9c	37.8cd	20.0d	51.7
	100.0a	61.1b	37.8c	21.1d
Corm types		0.2042^ns
Storage period		<0.0001
Corm type  storage period		0.2797^ns
Coefficient variance		22.40%

Note. Means followed by the same letters are not significantly different () according to Duncan’s multiple range test.  = significant; ^ns = not significant.