Table 1.
Changes in lemongrass growth, chlorophyll content and root colonization rate.
| Treatment | Parameter |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collar diameter (cm) | No of Branches | Colonization rate (%) | Total chlorophyll (mg.g−1 Fresh weight) | ME (%)1 | |
| (-) AMF | 0.57 ± 0.05b | 3.75 ± 0.4a | 7.0 ± 4.0b | 13.5 ± 2.6b | 0 |
| (+) AMF | 1.13 ± 0.2a | 2.5 ± 0.5b | 43 ± 6.0a | 15.82 ± 4.8a | 92.9 |
(-) AMF: Essential oil from non-mycorrhizal lemongrass, (+)AMF: Essential oil from mycorrhizal lemongrass
1
Mycorrhizal Efficiency, standing for the increase rate expressed in percentage following mycorrhizal inoculation. The results are displayed in terms of Mean ± standard deviation (SD). Mean values in each column with different alphabet are significantly different at α = 0.05.