Foliar Application of Leaf Extracts of Glycyrrhiza uralensis Increases Growth and Nutritional Value of Chinese Flowering Cabbage Plants under Field Conditions

Table 1

Changes in growth attributes of Brassica rapa under field conditions.

Plant traits	Trial 1		Trial 2
	Control	Treated	Control	Treated
Plant height (cm)	26.32 ± 2.1^a	33.57 ± 2.9^b	29.07 ± 1.7^a	31.18 ± 2.6^b
Shoot fresh biomass (g)	88.29 ± 5.3^a	141.68 ± 9.1^b	91.21 ± 6.2^a	123.17 ± 8.7^b
Shoot dry biomass (g)	71.91 ± 5.7^a	92.27 ± 6.0^b	76.93 ± 4.4^a	88.43 ± 5.9^b
Number of leaves	8.04 ± 0.4^a	10.62 ± 0.22^b	7.31 ± 0.36^a	11.31 ± 0.49^b
Marketable value (% age)	91.78 ± 6.24^a	83.54 ± 9.37^b	88.23 ± 7.31^a	81.52 ± 6.27^b

Data presented here are mean values of two independent field trials. Letters with ± shows standard error, whereas small letters show levels of significance among different treatments as governed by ANOVA and DNMRT at .