Figure 5.

Effect of MeJA treatment on plant growth and development traits at the end of the nursery phase of the strawberry cropping cycle. (A) The dry weight of aboveground plant parts; (B) total leaf area; (C) root index. Score of the amount of roots at the bottom of the rockwool block on a scale from 0 to 5; (D) number of trusses; (E) number of leaves; (F) length of the stem of the longest leaf. Data present mean ± SEM (n = 10). Letters indicate significant differences between treatments at p ≤ 0.05 based on Kruskal–Wallis and subsequent pairwise comparisons using as Mann–Whitney U test.