Table 2. Impact of leaf extracts from local and exotic moringa landraces on plant height, number of productive tillers and panicle length of rice cultivated under different levels of drought stress (n = 4).
| Treatments | Plant height (cm) | Productive tillers per plant | Panicle length (cm) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CC | MDS | SDS | Mean (FT) | CC | MDS | SDS | Mean (FT) | CC | MDS | SDS | Mean (FT) | |
| WS | 108.25 | 96.00 | 79.50 | 94.58 D | 9.00 | 7.00 | 6.00 | 7.33 D | 18.25 | 17.00 | 15.25 | 16.83 D |
| MLE-LM | 116.25 | 102.25 | 86.75 | 101.75 B | 11.00 | 10.00 | 8.30 | 9.75 BC | 22.50 | 19.75 | 17.50 | 19.92 B |
| MLE-LF | 119.00 | 105.25 | 90.50 | 104.92 A | 13.00 | 11.00 | 10.00 | 11.33 A | 24.50 | 21.87 | 19.50 | 21.96 A |
| MLE-LD | 116.50 | 102.50 | 86.13 | 101.71 B | 11.30 | 9.80 | 9.30 | 10.08 B | 22.00 | 19.69 | 17.25 | 19.65 B |
| MLE-EL | 112.75 | 99.00 | 83.75 | 98.50 C | 10.00 | 9.50 | 8.00 | 9.17 C | 20.12 | 18.75 | 16.94 | 18.61 C |
| Mean (WT) | 114.55 A | 101.00 B | 85.32 C | 10.90 A | 9.50 B | 8.30 C | 21.46 A | 19.41 B | 17.28 C | |||
| LSD, 0.05 | WT = 0.8921, FT = 1.2136, WT×FT = NS | WT = 1.0171, FT = 0.6516, WT×FT = NS | WT = 1.0036, FT = 0.6623, WT×FT = NS | |||||||||
Means sharing the same alphabets did not differ significantly at P ≤ 0.05. NS = statistically non-significant, CC = control condition, MDS = moderate drought stress, SDS = severe drought stress, FT = foliar treatments, WS = water spray, MLE-LM = moringa leaf extract from local landrace of Multan origin, LF = local landrace of Faisalabad origin, LD = local landrace of DG Khan origin, EL = exotic landrace, WT = water treatments