Table 2. Effect of the age of the explant in the regeneration efficiency and naranjilla plantlet growth from hypocotyl culture across all treatments.

	Number of shoots	Shoot length (cm)	Number of leaves	Average leaf length (cm)
Age of the explant	Mean±SE	Mean±SE	Mean±SE	Mean±SE
1–2 weeks	0.57±0.30^b	0.23±0.20^a	1.32±0.80^b	0.18±0.10^a
3–4 weeks	1.01±0.50^a	0.25±0.10^a	2.22±0.90^a	0.20±0.10^a

Means followed by the same lower case letter in a column are not statistically different from each other (One Way ANOVA, Tuckey, p<0.05).