Table 2 Interactive effect of different concentrations of naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) under alkaline stress on growth indices of squash plant.

From: Naphthalene acetic acid induced morphological and biochemical alterations in Lagenaria siceraria under alkaline stress

Conditions

Treatments (mg/L)

Root length (cm)

Shoot length (cm)

Root fresh weight (g)

Shoot fresh weight (g)

Number of leaves (n)

control (0 mM)

0

7.33d

19.06 cd

5.00 cd

10.24de

3.66 cd

25

9.33c

24.73abc

7.36bc

20.25c

5.00e

50

10.66ab

29.06ab

8.65b

30.27b

6.33b

75

12.22a

35.66a

10.33a

38.32a

7.01a

Alkaline stress (40 mM)

0

4.24f.

12.60d

2.33d

7.23e

2.06d

25

6.01ef

18.70 cd

4.00 cd

13.34d

3.38 cd

50

7.66e

22.06bcd

4.66c

20.28c

4.68c

75

8.66d

26.02abc

6.33b

28.25b

6.01ab

  1. Each value is a mean of four replicates; values sharing different alphabetic letters indicate significant differences (P ≤ 0.05) among treatments; *, ** and *** indicate significance at P ≤ 0.05, P ≤ 0.01 and P ≤ 0.001, respectively; ns indicates non-significant differences.