. 2024 Sep 27;10(19):e38623. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e38623

Table 2.

Mean values of assessed seedling characteristics under both growing conditions and their variation (%) due to heat stress from control of three clusters.

Cluster	Treatment	SFW	RFW	SDW	RDW	STWC	RSR	F_v/F₀	F_v/F_m	chl a	chl b	chl T
Cluster 1	Control	314.78	57.47	50.36	16.30	0.837	0.328	3.315	0.766	0.795	0.300	1.251
	Heat	226.79	36.14	41.79	15.09	0.809	0.368	2.763	0.731	0.691	0.262	1.089
	% change	(−)27.95^a	(−)37.13^a	(−)17.01^a	(−)7.39^a	(−)3.33^a	(+)12.19^a	(−)16.66^b	(−)4.50^a	(−)13.17^a	(−)12.41^a	(−)12.95^a
Cluster 2	Control	316.65	82.13	51.12	19.99	0.828	0.392	2.882	0.730	0.676	0.309	1.127
	Heat	98.67	24.67	36.99	12.24	0.585	0.337	2.146	0.670	0.530	0.246	0.889
	% change	(−)68.84^c	(−)69.96^b	(−)27.63^b	(−)38.78^b	(−)29.25^b	(−)14.01^b	(−)25.56^b	(−)8.28^b	(−)21.58^b	(−)20.30^b	(−)21.17^b
Cluster 3	Control	295.11	87.87	49.51	22.07	0.827	0.446	3.769	0.786	0.756	0.291	1.197
	Heat	167.35	26.87	35.57	12.75	0.772	0.380	2.939	0.739	0.440	0.180	0.708
	% change	(−)43.29^b	(−)69.42^b	(−)28.15^b	(−)42.23^b	(−)6.57^a	(−)14.87^b	(−)22.02^b	(−)6.04^ab	(−)41.79^c	(−)38.36^c	(−)40.82^c

According to Tukey's HSD, mean % change values in a column with different superscript letter(s) are statistically different at p ≤ 0.05. The (+) and (−) signs indicate the percent increase and decrease, respectively regarding the effect of heat stress treatment over control. Details of seedling traits are presented in Fig. 1.