Table 3.

The root: shoot ratio of local maize from studied accessions, PEG concentrations, and their interaction.

Accessions	PEG concentrations (%)						Average
	0	10	20	30	40	50
H	1.30	1.15	1.19	0.97	0.90	0.82	1.06 abc
BI1	0.65	0.63	0.66	0.62	0.65	0.61	0.64hi
BI2	0.63	0.63	0.61	0.64	0.62	0.51	0.61i
BI3	0.79	0.85	0.86	0.82	0.81	0.78	0.82 d-h
SB1	0.95	0.90	0.99	0.97	0.97	0.93	0.95b-e
SB2	1.24	1.28	1.04	1.15	1.15	0.96	1.14a
SB3	0.81	0.83	0.82	0.78	0.70	0.65	0.76e-i
SB4	1.00	1.10	1.16	1.16	1.15	1.15	1.12 ab
SB5	0.85	0.81	0.73	0.84	0.78	0.79	0.80e-h
DS1	0.86	0.84	0.84	0.85	0.86	0.74	0.83 d-g
DS2	0.87	0.91	0.87	0.83	0.86	0.76	0.85def
DS3	1.05	0.91	1.07	1.00	1.03	0.98	1.00a-d
DS4	0.70	0.80	0.89	0.90	0.95	0.82	0.85def
DS5	0.94	0.86	0.90	0.92	0.86	0.83	0.88cde
MN1	0.45	0.53	0.72	0.71	0.70	0.77	0.65 ghi
MN2	0.73	0.74	0.82	0.84	0.86	0.81	0.80e-h
MN3	0.81	0.76	0.68	0.62	0.65	0.61	0.69f-i
Average	0.86	0.85	0.87	0.86	0.85	0.80

Note: Means with the same letters are not significantly different based on Duncan's test at the 5% of probability level.