Publication: Hastening germination, growth and survival of Bani (Pongamia pinnata l.) as influenced by seawater exposure and growing media
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2023-05
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Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University - North La Union Campus
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Bani (Pongamia pinnata L.), a fast-growing evergreen tree which reaches 40 feet in height and spread, forming a broad, spreading canopy casting moderate shade under family Leguminosae. The study was conducted to determine which among the seawater exposure and growing media would gave the highest performance of Bani seedlings at the Agroforestry Nursery, Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University- North La Union Campus from November 11, 2022 to March 17, 2023. The germination experiment was laid out in a Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with four (4) treatments, replicated three (3) times. Also, the study was laid out following the 4x3 factorial experiments in a Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with four (4) replications. The seawater exposure and growing media were the two factors utilized in the study. Results showed that seawater exposure significantly influenced the germination percentage and germination energy on the 14th,21st and 28th day in the germination experiment. However, no significance on the mean germination time. In the growth and survival experiment, there were no comparable effects on the height and diameter at 30, 60 and 90 days after transplanting, number of leaves at 30 days after transplanting and the rest of the parameters taken. Someway, it is significantly different on the number of leaves at 60 and 90 days after transplanting. Growing media had no significant influenced in all the parameters under growth and survival experiment. Furthermore, on the interaction effects between seawater exposure and growing media have no significant difference in all the parameters taken.
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Marzan, R. M. (2023). Hastening germination, growth and survival of Bani (Pongamia pinnata l.) as influenced by seawater exposure and growing media. [Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis]. Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University - North La Union Campus, Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union. Lakasa ti Sirib, DMMMSU Institutional Repository.