Treatment^z

Height

Tiller Number (TN)/Plant

Leaf Chlorophyll Index (LCI)

Biomass Yield

Rhizome Yield

M0

M1

M2

M4.5

M0

M1

M2

M4.5

M1

M2

M3

M4.5

cm

TN

LCI

g

g

Soil additive (SA)

VAM

20.9

24.6

31.2

48.3

2.5

4.4

8.3

16.5

31.6

39.8

43.4

33.5

34.1

500.2

Control

21.0

24.7

29.8

48.0

2.9

5.1

9.0

17.7

30.8

38.5

43.3

32.4

30.0

481.7

SA

NS

NS

NS

NS

NS

NS

NS

NS

NS

NS

NS

NS

NS

NS

Seedling Type (S)

NTCS1

21.4

26.1

33.6

45.3

1.4b^y

3.3b

6.0b

11.8b

32.0

38.8ab

41.1b

31.6

20.6b

375.8b

TCS1

19.0

22.1

31.1

47.7

2.1b

3.5b

6.3b

13.8b

30.3

36.7b

44.4a

31.3

26.4ab

448.6b

TCS2

22.5

25.7

26.8

51.4

4.4a

7.6a

13.5a

25.7a

31.4

41.8a

44.6a

35.9

49.2a

648.3a

S

NS

NS

NS

NS

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NS

*

**

NS

*

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