Kilasho, A.; Oluborode, J.; Jackson, V.; Ogwo, C.; Ogbuka, C.; Shomide, P.; Oyediran, E. Growth Response of Tetrapluera tetraptera Schum (Thonn) Seedlings to Organic Fertilizers. Preprints2022, 2022080459. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0459.v1
APA Style
Kilasho, A., Oluborode, J., Jackson, V., Ogwo, C., Ogbuka, C., Shomide, P., & Oyediran, E. (2022). Growth Response of <em>Tetrapluera tetraptera</em> Schum (Thonn) Seedlings to Organic Fertilizers. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0459.v1
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Kilasho, A., Patricia Shomide and Emmanuel Oyediran. 2022 "Growth Response of <em>Tetrapluera tetraptera</em> Schum (Thonn) Seedlings to Organic Fertilizers" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0459.v1
Abstract
The study was carried out to investigate the growth response of Tetrapluera tetraptera to selected organic fertilizers. Organic fertilizers: poultry manure and cow dung of different concentration and mixture were used to raise seedlings from Germination experiment for a period of 12 weeks. Six treatments were used for this research: T1 (control experiment), T2 (10g of poultry manure), T3 (10g of cow dung), T4 (20g of poultry manure), T5 (20g of cow dung), T6 (15g of poultry manure + 15g of cow dung). Growth parameters such as diameter, plant height and number of leaves were measured weekly over a period of twelve (12) weeks. Data obtained were subjected to Anova and mean separated using Duncan multiple range tests. on the height parameter assessed on Tetrapluera tetraptera, the highest plant height mean of 12.20cm was recorded in treatment 6 (15g of poultry manure + 15g of cow dung) while the lowest mean plant height 7.19cm was recorded in treatment 3 (10g of cow dung) . the highest mean stem diameter was recorded in treatment 4 with a value of 0.43mm from while the least was recorded in Treatment 1 with mean value of 0.21 m. also, highest mean number of leaves was recorded treatment 4 (12.81) while the least was observed in T3 (11.01) . The results showed that organic manure has considerable effect on the growth of Tetrapluera tetraptera seedlings and it use should be encouraged. T3 (10g of poultry Manure + 10g of cow dung) was hereby recommended to be the best of all in the growth of Tetrapluera tetraptera.
Keywords
growth and yield; Tetrapluera tetraptera; organic fertilizers; seedlings
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Forestry
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