Table 4.

Growth responses to nano-zinc application.

	dry weight g/plant
	root	stem	leaves	bolls	S + L	top	whole	T/R
nano-Zn treatments	R	S	L	B		S + L + B	S + L + B + R	ratio
NZn0	2.16	6.50	3.05	20.23	9.55	29.78	31.94	13.79
NZn1	3.70	9.18	4.90	23.13	14.08	37.21	40.91	10.06
NZn2	2.54	12.17	5.43	28.23	17.60	45.83	48.37	18.04
LSD5%	n.s.	**2.34	n.s.	***1.62	—	—	—	—

n.s.p > 0.05, **p ≤ 0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001.