Table 7.

Changes in the values of dry weight of shoot system of Ammi visnaga L. plants (g plant⁻¹) treated with different concentrations of amino acids and phenolic compounds during the vegetative (I), flowering (II), early fruiting (III) and fruiting (IV) stages, each value is mean of ten replicates ± SD.

Treatments (mg L−1)		Dry weight (g plant−1)
		I	II	III	IV
Control	0	0.3 ± 0.02	8.1 ± 0.02	15.6 ± 0.1	25.3 ± 0.2
Tyrosine	50	0.3 ± 0.02	9.6 ± 0.4	19.7 ± 0.1	28.8 ± 0.2
	100	0.4 ± 0.02	11.7 ± 0.03	25.1 ± 0.1	40.1 ± 0.04
	200	0.6 ± 0.02	12.4 ± 0.02	29.3 ± 0.1	47.6 ± 0.2
Phenylalanine	50	0.3 ± 0.03	10.2 ± 0.2	21.7 ± 0.2	35.1 ± 0.1
	100	0.5 ± 0.02	12.8 ± 0.1	28.1 ± 0.04	41.7 ± 0.7
	200	0.6 ± 0.02	13.8 ± 0.2	30.2 ± 0.1	45.5 ± 0.3
Benzoic acid	5	0.6 ± 0.02	15.3 ± 1.0	31.7 ± 0.8	47.2 ± 0.5
	10	0.7 ± 0.01	15.5 ± 0.3	33.0 ± 0.3	48.5 ± 0.2
	20	0.8 ± 0.02	16.6 ± 0.1	37.6 ± 0.2	52.3 ± 0.1
Tarns-cinnamic acid	5	0.3 ± 0.02	12.5 ± 0.1	25.1 ± 0.4	39.9 ± 0.1
	10	0.4 ± 0.02	13.6 ± 0.1	28.2 ± 0.2	43.6 ± 0.2
	20	0.6 ± 0.03	16.4 ± 0.03	35.0 ± 0.5	50.2 ± 0.2
Salicylic acid	5	0.3 ± 0.02	11.4 ± 0.3	25.6 ± 0.2	37.3 ± 0.2
	10	0.5 ± 0.02	13.2 ± 0.3	28.1 ± 0.1	44.5 ± 0.1
	20	0.5 ± 0.02	14.5 ± 0.1	31.4 ± 0.4	48.0 ± 0.2
LSD at
0.05		0.0	0.3	0.4	0.4
0.01		0.0	0.4	0.6	0.5