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Table 4.

Effect of extracts on the growth of sugarcane tissue-cultured seedlings and allelopathy evaluation.

Treatment	Test item			Allelopathic RI			Allelopathic synthesis effect SE
Treatment	Root length growth (cm)	Seedling height growth (cm)	Seedling fresh weight growth (g)	Root length growth	Seedling height growth	Seedling fresh weight growth	Allelopathic synthesis effect SE
CK	3.21 ± 0.36^a	23.5 ± 2.0^a	2.07 ± 0.12^a	0^a	0^a	0^a	0^a
J1-1	2.57 ± 0.21^bc	19.3 ± 1.0^b	1.83 ± 0.10^b	− 0.20^bcd	− 0.18^b	− 0.11^b	− 0.16^bc
J1-2	2.51 ± 0.22^bc	18.8 ± 1.5^bc	1.72 ± 0.11^bc	− 0.22^cd	− 0.20^c	− 0.17^bc	− 0.20^cd
J1-3	2.34 ± 0.24^cd	17.0 ± 1.1^cde	1.67 ± 0.10^bc	− 0.28^de	− 0.27^de	− 0.19^bc	− 0.25^ef
J2-1	2.60 ± 0.10^bc	18.0 ± 0.6^bcd	1.82 ± 0.12^b	− 0.19^bc	− 0.23^bcd	− 0.12^b	− 0.18^bc
J2-2	2.41 ± 0.10^cd	16.7 ± 0.8^de	1.72 ± 0.11^bc	− 0.25^cde	− 0.29^de	− 0.17^bc	− 0.24^de
J2-3	2.15 ± 0.09^d	15.8 ± 1.3^e	1.63 ± 0.08^c	− 0.33^e	− 0.33^e	− 0.21^c	− 0.29f.
J3-1	2.81 ± 0.12^b	19.3 ± 1.0^b	1.81 ± 0.10^b	− 0.13^b	− 0.18^b	− 0.12^b	− 0.14^b
J3-2	2.61 ± 0.09^bc	18.2 ± 0.9^bcd	1.73 ± 0.12^bc	− 0.19^bc	− 0.23^bcd	− 0.16^bc	− 0.19^cd
J3-3	2.37 ± 0.13^cd	17.3 ± 1.1^cde	1.73 ± 0.08^bc	− 0.26^cde	− 0.26^cde	− 0.16^bc	− 0.23^de

Data are the mean ± standard deviation of three replicates. Different lowercase letters in each column represent significant differences at the 0.05 level.

CK blank control, RI response index, SE synergistic allelopathy effect index.