Table 14.

The mean values of antioxidant content (mg TE 100 g⁻¹ herb) of lovage plants as affected with planting spacing, melatonin concentrations and their combination treatments in two cuts of both seasons.

Treatments	First season		Second season
	1st cut	2nd cut	1st cut	2nd cut
Planting space between plants in row (cm)
15	53.94 ± 0.82 a*	54.49 ± 1.52 a	56.63 ± 1.18 a	55.57 ± 1.49 a
30	48.34 ± 2.27 b	47.83 ± 2.29 b	49.61 ± 1.65 b	48.24 ± 2.62 b
45	40.02 ± 3.00 c	39.96 ± 2.58 c	41.48 ± 3.24 c	40.32 ± 2.48 c
Melatonin concentrations (µM)
Without soaking	45.42 ± 7.61 c	45.37 ± 6.72 b	47.20 ± 7.97 d	45.46 ± 7.12 d
0	46.94 ± 6.31 b	46.36 ± 7.38 b	48. 17 ± 7.29 c	47.30 ± 7.31 c
75	50.11 ± 4.65 a	49.57 ± 5.20 a	51. 66 ± 5.58 a	50.57 ± 5.75 a
100	47.26 ± 5.93 b	48.41 ± 6.27 a	49. 94 ± 5.61 b	48.84 ± 6.50 b
Interaction
T1	53.73 ± 0.83 a	52.97 ± 1.34 a	55.65 ± 0.60 b	54.00 ± 0.40 b
T2	53.88 ± 0.91 a	54.73 ± 0.31 a	56.37 ± 1.72 ab	55.47 ± 0.23 ab
T3	54.32 ± 1.06 a	55.33 ± 0.83 a	57.79 ± 0.51 a	56.95 ± 1.60 a
T4	53.82 ± 0.87 a	54.93 ± 2.27 a	56.72 ± 0.73 ab	55.87 ± 1.67 a
T5	46.26 ± 0.33 c	45.55 ± 1.12 cd	48.55 ± 0.48 d	44.69 ± 1.33 e
T6	47.51 ± 0.89 c	46.44 ± 2.15 c	48.47 ± 0.48 d	47.73 ± 1.66 d
T7	51.86 ± 0.64 b	49.87 ± 1.29 b	52.20 ± 0.52 c	50.93 ± 0.46 c
T8	47.70 ± 0.64 c	49.47 ± 0.46 b	49.23 ± 0.49 d	49.60 ± 0.40 c
T9	36.25 ± 0.48 f	37.59 ± 0.35 f	37.41 ± 0.38 g	37.70 ± 0.31 g
T10	39.42 ± 0.48 e	37.90 ± 0.98 f	39.67 ± 0.40 f	38.71 ± 0.35 g
T11	44.15 ± 0.69 d	43.50 ± 0.66 d	44.98 ± 0.72 e	43.82 ± 0.18 e
T12	40.26 ± 1.02 e	40.84 ± 0.63 e	43.86 ± 0.44 e	41.04 ± 0.30 f

^*Means followed by the same letter are not significantly different by the protected LSD, P ≤ 0.05. Data are means value ± SE (n = 3). 1st cut and 2nd cut means the first and second cutts, respectively.