Germination and acclimatization of Melocactus sergipensis Taylor & Meiado Author Bravo Filho, Eronides Soares Author Santana, Marlucia Cruz de Author Santos, Paulo Augusto Almeida Author Ribeiro, Adauto de Souza text Iheringia, Série Botânica 2019 e 2019009 2019-08-20 74 4 1 5 http://dx.doi.org/10.21826/2446-82312019v74e2019009 journal article 10.21826/2446-82312019v74e2019009 2446-8231 10950854

Table 2. In vitro germination and growth of the M. sergipensis seedlings 90 days after planting in a greenhouse. Values in the same column followed by different letters (A or B) are significantly different (p <0.05) from each other according to Tukey’s post hoc test.

Treatment	Germinatin rate (%)	Index germination velocity (IGV)	Survival (%)	Stem length (cm)	Stem Diameter (mm)	Radicle Length (cm)	Fresh weight (g)
T0 = untreated seeds (control), T1 = seeds soaked in distilled water for 6 hours; T2 = seeds soaked in 2 mg L- 1 GA for 6 hours. 3
T0	86 A	0.59 A	100 A	0.77 A	5.10 A	1.18 A	0.12 B
T1	82 A	0.41 A	100 A	0.65 A	5.0 A	1.11 A	0.11 B
T2	92 A	0.46 A	100 A	0.71 A	5.0 A	1.48 A	0.16 A