Effects of Different Soilless Growing Media on the Growth and Development of Tobacco Seedlings

Table 5

Correlation and regression analyses of measured variables.

		Transplantable	Stem	Shoot	Root	Shoot	Total	Root: shoot
		Percent	Height	Thickness	DM	DM	DM	Ratio
Transplantable	R	1.0	0.95	0.55	0.10	0.24	0.06	0.34
Percent	value		<0.001	0.098	0.78	0.50	0.87	0.34
Stem height			1.0	0.43	0.08	0.01	0.16	0.38
				0.21	0.43	0.99	0.66	0.28
Stem thickness				1.0	0.63	0.73	0.70	0.38
					0.048	0.02	0.02	0.28
					1.0	0.85	0.96	0.79
						0.001	<0.001	0.006
Shoot dry mass						1.0	0.96	0.41
							<0.001	0.26
Total dry mass							1.0	0.63
								0.05
Root: shoot ratio								1.0