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Table 3 Effect of tobacco and eggplant grafting on the chemical composition of fresh tobacco

From: Reducing the nicotine content of tobacco by grafting with eggplant

Time /d

Treatments

Total nitrogen

Total sugar

Reducing sugar

Nicotine

65

Tobacco / tobacco

3.50 ± 0.15cB

8.23 ± 0.30aA

7.79 ± 0.10aA

0.75 ± 0.02aA

Tobacco / eggplant without hilling up

4.17 ± 0.08bA

7.32 ± 0.27bB

6.78 ± 0.33bB

0.07 ± 0cC

Tobacco / eggplant with hilling up

4.35 ± 0.19aA

7.35 ± 0.33bB

5.93 ± 0.27cC

0.15 ± 0.01bB

80

Tobacco / tobacco

2.54 ± 0.01cC

8.43 ± 0.22aA

6.10 ± 0.17aA

1.16 ± 0.04aA

Tobacco / eggplant without hilling up

2.84 ± 0.02aA

5.78 ± 0.13cC

3.90 ± 0.10cC

0.06 ± 0cC

Tobacco / eggplant with hilling up

2.71 ± 0.10bB

6.75 ± 0.24bB

5.39 ± 0.21bB

0.21 ± 0.01bB

  1. Note: The difference between treatments is significant (P < 0.05) if the same number is not marked with the same lowercase letter and the difference between the treatments is extremely significant (P < 0.01) without the same capital letter