Table 6

Variable	Before planting	Days after planting
Table 6. Growth data of Deli x Yangambi cross during the prenursery phase.
Variable	Before planting	37	51	63	77	90	126
Plumule length	2.3 ±0.5
Radicle length	4.2 ±1.3	21.1 ±3.7	23.3 ±2.3	27.1 ±1.9	28.9 ±3.0	32.1 ±6.9	31.1 ±3.8
No of adventicious roots	3.2 ±1.7	13.8 ±5.3	9.5 ±6.0	4.3 ±3.4	6.3 ±2.4	1.5 ±1.0	1.3 ±1.0
Length of adventicious roots		2.8 ±1.5	2.4 ±1.0	1.4 ±1.0	25.5 ±2.0	3.4 ±1.3	0.9 ±0.2
No of primary roots			1.0 ±0.1	1.0 ±0.1	1.3 ±0.3	1.8 ±0.2	4.2 ±0.2
Length of primary roots			2.6 ±3.4	6.0 ±4.8	8.8 ±3.7	13.4 ±3.4	18.0 ±1.4
Bulb diameter (mm)		6.40 ±0.26	6.59 ±0.28	6.74 ±0.40	7.40 ±0.45	8.83 ±0.70	13.07 ±1.00
Length of the youngest completed formed leaf (cm)					14.4 ±0.6	16.8 ±1.5	24.0 ±1.5
Width of the youngest completed formed leaf (cm)					3.9 ±0.2	4.2 ±0.3	6.6 ±0.3
No of leaves totally open					2.0 ±0.1	2.7 ±0.1	4.2 ±0.3
Root dry weight (g)		0.1089 ±0.0139	0.1728 ±0.0138	0.2121 ±0.0387	0.3010 ±0.0480	0.3830 ±0.0308	0.8304 ±0.0819
Aerial part dry weight (g)		0.1771 ±0.0129	0.3161 ±0.0234	0.4534 ±0.0990	0.6551 ±0.0647	1.1001 ±0.2184	2.8594 ±0.2209
Total dry weight(g)		0.2860 ±0.0973	0.4890 ±0.0614	0.6656 ±0.0517	0.9562 ±0.0191	1.4831 ±0.2985	3.6898 ±0.1895
Numbers are means and standard deviation of a sample of 24 plants, except for data taken before planting, where the sample was of 256 germinated seeds.