Table 8. Effects of starter nitrogen fertilizer on leaf chlorophyll content at different stages.

Nitrogen treatments	V4			R2			R4
	2013	2014	Mean	2013	2014	Mean	2013	2014	Mean
N0	40.52d	39.63b	40.08d	45.76b	44.36b	45.06b	40.62	39.90	40.26
N25	45.73b	41.21a	43.47b	48.98a	46.89b	47.94a	40.86	40.20	40.53
N50	47.19a	41.84a	44.52a	48.25a	49.98a	49.12a	40.72	40.71	40.72
N75	42.60c	41.39a	42.00c	47.89b	50.14a	49.02a	40.55	40.64	40.60
ANOVA Effect
Nitrogen (N)	***	*	***	**	**	***	ns	ns	ns
Year (Y)	***			*			***
N×Y	***			**			ns

Means with same letter are not significantly different (P<0.05) using LSD Test.

***, **, *, and ns denote significance at 0.001, 0.01, 0.05 and not significant (P>0.05), respectively.