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Table 2 Yield components of both the leaf lettuce and Japanese hogfennel affected by the varying rates of organic amendments

From: Yield, functional properties and nutritional compositions of leafy vegetables with dehydrated food waste and spent coffee grounds

Crops

Treatments

Fresh weight

Leaf

Root length (cm)

Shoot

Root

Length

Width

Counts (ea/plant)

(g)

(cm)

Leaf lettuce

Control

51.98 ± 2.06C

15.48 ± 3.08ABC

16.78 ± 1.03A

9.70 ± 2.37B

21.40 ± 1.85AB

16.68 ± 1.02A

N

77.52 ± 2.87A

19.73 ± 3.16A

18.50 ± 1.48A

11.96 ± 2.68A

23.40 ± 1.94A

15.34 ± 2.42A

SCGs0.5

12.70 ± 2.04DE

5.51 ± 2.20BCD

8.02 ± 1.46C

4.24 ± 1.36D

14.80 ± 1.62C

15.08 ± 2.32A

SCGs1.0

20.77 ± 2.83E

7.59 ± 2.34CD

6.40 ± 1.04CD

3.60 ± 1.98D

13.20 ± 2.79C

13.20 ± 2.33A

SCGs2.0

8.67 ± 2.98D

3.08 ± 1.83CD

6.10 ± 2.58D

3.50 ± 2.43D

12.00 ± 2.28C

12.60 ± 1.74A

DFWP0.5

62.36 ± 1.29B

16.97 ± 1.11AB

17.32 ± 2.86A

10.22 ± 1.88B

19.80 ± 1.85B

14.06 ± 1.20A

DFWP1.0

52.49 ± 1.33C

16.67 ± 1.83BCD

17.38 ± 1.48A

10.16 ± 2.39B

19.80 ± 2.96B

14.22 ± 2.67A

DFWP2.0

16.53 ± 1.25D

6.72 ± 1.33D

11.68 ± 1.53A

5.74 ± 2.35C

15.20 ± 2.89C

14.44 ± 2.40A

p-value

**

*

*

**

**

***

Japanese hogfennel

Control

0.40 ± 0.07c

0.71 ± 0.33b

2.35 ± 0.35bc

2.85 ± 0.21c

4.00 ± 0.00b

8.30 ± 0.28c

N

1.12 ± 0.73b

2.15 ± 1.65ab

2.57 ± 0.81bc

4.23 ± 1.00b

4.00 ± 0.00b

12.60 ± 1.87c

SCGs0.5

0.94 ± 0.57bc

3.71 ± 2.83ab

2.80 ± 0.77b

3.84 ± 0.95b

3.80 ± 0.84b

35.28 ± 2.23a

SCGs1.0

1.18 ± 0.35b

4.47 ± 1.02a

2.96 ± 0.57b

4.52 ± 0.25b

4.00 ± 0.00b

22.38 ± 2.11b

SCGs2.0

0.79 ± 0.21bc

1.16 ± 0.53ab

2.76 ± 0.29b

3.98 ± 0.41b

4.20 ± 0.41b

32.76 ± 2.90a

DFWP0.5

1.42 ± 0.34b

4.71 ± 1.82a

3.26 ± 0.49b

4.52 ± 0.72b

5.20 ± 0.90a

30.20 ± 2.14ab

DFWP1.0

2.41 ± 0.53a

4.77 ± 1.87a

4.30 ± 0.70a

6.30 ± 0.90a

5.80 ± 0.72a

34.08 ± 3.36a

DFWP2.0

0.45 ± 0.17c

0.32 ± 0.20b

1.84 ± 0.30c

2.42 ± 0.30c

3.80 ± 0.27b

10.84 ± 3.49c

p-value

***

*

**

***

*

*

  1. Control, Untreated treatment; N, Treatment with inorganic fertilizers; SCGsx.x, Treatment applied at half the recommeded rate (0.5), the recommeded rate (1.0), and double the recommeded rate (2.0) of spent coffee grounds; DFWPx.x, Treatment applied at half the recommeded rate (0.5), the recommeded rate (1.0), and double the recommeded rate (2.0) of dehydrated food waste powder. Within each column, values follwed by the same letters are not significant difference at p < 0.05
  2. *, **, and *** are used to indicate statistically significant differences at the p < 0.05, p < 0.01, and p < 0.001, respectively