Table 4. Growth and seed setting characteristics of L. chinensis under each of the four management treatments of Mown, Fenced, Transplanted and Natural (control) grasslands.

	Mown	Fenced	Transplanted	Natural
Plant height (cm)	29.8±5.0c	25.6±1.5c	74.2±7.4a	53.9±3.0b
Seed setting rate(%)	/	20.5±3.2b	53.7±3.6a	6.9±1.7c
No. seeds/spikelet	/	46.2±2.9b	51.1±4.6b	87.7±5.8a
Length of spikelet (cm)	/	8.4±0.4b	12.7±0.5a	11.4±0.6ab

/represents no data, as no L. chinensis seeds were produced at the mown sites. Values are mean ± s.e. (n = 3). Different lowercase letters in the same row represent significant differences at 0.05 level between management regimes based on Tukey’s test.