Characters | Treatments | L.S.D. 0.05 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Control | Micro | Milk whey | Yeast extract (1) | Yeast extract (2) | |||
Shoot height (cm) | 63.50 | 66.72 | 74.56 | 73.33 | 69.17 | 2.19 | |
Root length (cm) | 10.33 | 14.00 | 13.61 | 13.06 | 12.56 | 1.32 | |
Number of basal branch | 2.78 | 3.94 | 3.72 | 2.67 | 3.61 | 0.22 | |
Shoot fresh wt. (g) | 9.85 | 23.18 | 22.28 | 17.88 | 25.31 | 1.05 | |
Root fresh wt. (g) | 1.06 | 3.17 | 3.12 | 1.99 | 3.53 | 0.25 | |
Shoot dry wt. (g) | 2.78 | 6.31 | 6.18 | 4.84 | 6.86 | 0.22 | |
Root dry wt. (g) | 0.35 | 0.98 | 0.78 | 0.48 | 0.92 | 0.19 | |
Chlorophyll a | mg/100Â g fresh wt | 1.170 | 1.601 | 1.769 | 1.437 | 1.521 | 0.01 |
Chlorophyll b | 0.489 | 0.501 | 0.522 | 0.512 | 0.468 | 0.10 | |
Carotenoids | 0.404 | 0.438 | 0.509 | 0.366 | 0.389 | 0.05 | |
Total pigments | 2.064 | 2.540 | 2.801 | 2.316 | 2.377 | 0.18 | |
Total carbohydrate content (%) | 17.82 | 19.74 | 20.42 | 20.77 | 22.37 | 0.53 | |
Total soluble carbohydrate (%) | 1.79 | 1.79 | 1.97 | 2.01 | 2.07 | 0.10 | |
Polysaccharides (%) | 16.03 | 17.95 | 18.45 | 18.76 | 20.30 | 0.51 | |
IAA (μg/g fresh leaf) | 26.02 | 33.25 | 37.35 | 40.64 | 47.15 | 3.62 | |
Total phenolic(mg/100Â g fresh leaf) | 41.13 | 52.84 | 46.87 | 54.44 | 59.97 | 1.38 |