Table 3.
Impact of various biostimulant applications on growth parameters of soilless-grown tomato plants.
| Treatments | Plant Height (cm) | Leaf Number per Plant | Leaf Area (cm2 Plant−1) |
Stem Diameter (mm) |
Leaf Dry Matter (%) | Leaf SPAD-Chlorophyll |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | 170 c | 68.00 c | 12,387 d | 14.95 e | 10.79 bc | 37.13 d |
| Amino acid | 173 bc | 90.33 b | 21,433 a | 15.93 bc | 11.55 b | 44.00 bc |
| PGPR | 177 b | 73.00 c | 19,916 ab | 15.38 d | 11.01 bc | 44.90 bc |
| Fulvic acid | 183 a | 85.33 b | 17,483 c | 15.84 c | 10.88 bc | 41.42 c |
| Chitosan | 178 ab | 68.88 c | 18,138 bc | 16.48 a | 10.39 c | 45.70 b |
| Vermicompost | 179 ab | 96.66 a | 21,600 a | 16.29 ab | 13.14 a | 53.96 a |
| p | 0.0011 | 0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | 0.0023 | <0.0001 |
| LSD0.05 | 6.583 | 10.302 | 2157 | 0.419 | 1.062 | 4.07 |
LSD: the least significant difference between the means (p < 0.05). There is no significant difference between means with the same letter in the same column.