Distillery Spent Wash Enhances Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) Growth
Ameer Sultan1, Abdur Rauf1*, Farooq Jan1, Muhammad Qayash2, Muhammad Yasin3, Tanweer Kumar4, Wajid Khan4, Muhammad Arif4, Kashmala Jabbar5, Wisal Khan6, Farhan Ullah1, Syed Shabab Hussain1 and Ikramullah Khan1
1Garden Campus Department of Botany, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan; 2Garden Campus Department of Zoology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan; 3Centre of Biochemistry and Biotechnology (GCBB), Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan; 4Sugar Crops Research Institute (SCRI), Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan; 5Department of Chemistry, GPGGCM, KP, Pakistan; 6Garden Campus Department of Chemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan.
*Correspondence | Abdur Rauf, Garden Campus Department of Botany, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan; Email:
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Figure 1:
Graphical presentation of plant growth/height of the sugarcane treated with different concentrations of spent washes. The Y-axis shows plant height in centimeter (cm) and the X-axis days after plantation (DAP).
Figure 2:
Diameter of sugarcane plant at different growth periods with four treatments (30, 40, 50, and 60 %).
Figure 3:
Number of leaves per sugarcane plant at different growth periods with different treatments.
Figure 4:
Numbers of tillers per sugarcane plant at different growth periods with different treatments.