Table 2.
Shoot fresh and dry weight of tomato as affected by temperature, genotype and exogenous application of GA3.
| Temperature (A) | Treatment (B) | Shoot fresh weight (g) | Shoot dry weight (g) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmar | Roma | Mean (A x B) | Ahmar | Roma | Mean (A x B) | ||
| 25 °C | Control | 21.66 hij | 28.2 fgh | 24.93 e | 6.76 gh | 8.81 ef | 7.79 de |
| 25 mg L−1 GA3 | 30.39 fgh | 34.68 c-g | 32.53 cd | 9.49 def | 10.83 cde | 10.16 c | |
| 50 mg L−1 GA3 | 34.55 c-g | 41.34 a-e | 37.94 bc | 10.79 cde | 12.91 ab | 11.85 b | |
| 75 mg L−1 GA3 | 43.32 abc | 46.11 ab | 44.71 a | 13.53 a | 14.4 a | 13.97 a | |
| 100 mg L−1 GA3 | 26.63 ghi | 33.42 d-g | 30.02 de | 5.82 hi | 8.94 ef | 7.38 e | |
| 45 °C | Control | 14.24 j | 18.74 ij | 16.49 f. | 4.45 i | 5.85 hi | 5.15 f. |
| 25 mg L−1 GA3 | 34.13 c-g | 40.72 a-e | 37.42 bc | 10.66 de | 12.72 abc | 11.69 b | |
| 50 mg L−1 GA3 | 35.91 c-f | 42.52 a-d | 39.21 ab | 11.22 bcd | 13.28 a | 12.25 b | |
| 75 mg L−1 GA3 | 42.14 a-d | 46.65 a | 44.39 a | 13.16 ab | 14.57 a | 13.87 a | |
| 100 mg L−1 GA3 | 32.15 efg | 36.96 b-f | 34.55 bcd | 8.04 fg | 9.55 def | 8.79 d | |
| Mean (genotype) | 31.51 b | 36.93 a | 9.39 b | 11.19 a | |||
| HSD0.05 (Interaction) | 9.217 | 2.043 | |||||
According to Tukey's honestly significant difference test, the same letters suggest that there is no statistically significant difference between treatments (p ≤ 0.05).