Agriculture & Food Security

Table 8 Germination of stored grains treated with binary combinations of Hymenocardia acida wood ash with Plectranthus glandulosus leaf powder and infested, and non-infested by Sitophilus zeamais under laboratory conditions (temp.: 22.76 ± 2.02 °C; r.h. = 69.87 ± 9.93%)

From: Effectiveness of binary combinations of Plectranthus glandulosus leaf powder and Hymenocardia acida wood ash against Sitophilus zeamais (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Content (g/kg)	Products
	25PG75HA	50PG50HA	75PG25HA	25PG75HA	50PG50HA	75PG25HA
	Non-infested			Infested
0	94.33 ± 1.36^a	94.33 ± 1.36^a	94.33 ± 1.36^a	21.67 ± 2.15^d	21.67 ± 2.15^d	21.67 ± 2.15^c
5	91.08 ± 0.21^a	90.83 ± 1.50^a	94.83 ± 1.90^a	84.67 ± 0.83^c	81.67 ± 3.19^c	78.33 ± 0.96^b
10	92.00 ± 0.79^a	94.50 ± 1.83^a	92.83 ± 0.88^a	88.33 ± 1.67^bc	84.17 ± 2.50^bc	83.33 ± 1.36^ab
20	92.17 ± 0.74^a	94.17 ± 1.50^a	93.42 ± 1.64^a	92.33 ± 0.83^ab	93.33 ± 1.36^a	86.67 ± 2.36^ab
40	91.17 ± 0.32^a	92.08 ± 0.79^a	92.20 ± 1.73^a	97.50 ± 1.60^a	95.00 ± 1.67^a	90.00 ± 2.36^a
F _{(4; 15)}	2.72^ns	1.30^ns	0.41^ns	430.01***	180.43***	218.78***

Mean ± S.E. followed by the same capital letter in a line and the same lower case letter in a column do not differ significantly at P < 0.05 (Tukey’s test)

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