Parameters
Treatments
Growth vigor of shoot
  Fresh mass (g) Dry mass (g) Length (cm) Diameter (mm) Density (g cm-1) Distribution (g cm-1) Leaf area  (cm2) No. of nodes
Cont 47.51±0.567 6.45±0.068 68.73±0.432 6.01±0.217 0.093±0.001 0.691±0.007 40.95±0.634 19.00±0.354
 P 29.40±0.306 3.58±0.140 55.47±0.447 4.60±0.189 0.064±0.003 0.529±0.005 27.68±0.146 15.00±0.274
 F 45.16±0.305 5.83±0.112 66.27±0.130 5.50±0.379 0.088±0.002 0.681±0.005 38.56±0.506 18.62±0.354
 F+P 39.85±0.235 4.49±0.152 61.38±0.580 5.32±0.213 0.073±0.003 0.649±0.004 33.92±0.572 17.75±0.500
 SH 55.47±0.580 7.54±0.158 74.39±0.449 6.58±0.209 0.101±0.002 0.745±0.009 43.19±0.274 21.12±0.354
 SH+P 50.53±0.715 6.19±0.307 68.34±0.514 6.11±0.100 0.090±0.005 0.739±0.013 40.90±0.232 19.12±0.500
 SA 58.17±0.561 8.26±0.119 75.79±0.592 7.03±0.098 0.109±0.002 0.767±0.009 44.39±0.321 21.87±0.500
 SA+P 53.54±0.447 7.09±0.195 70.37±0.112 6.13±0.153 0.100±0.003 0.761±0.007 41.63±0.582 20.75±0.418
 SH+SA 56.00±0.403 7.32±0.091 70.75±0.187 6.82±0.125 0.103±0.009 0.791±0.003 42.57±0.442 21.00±0.548
 SH+ SA+P 51.75±0.025 6.71±0.142 68.38±0.285 6.15±0.074 0.098±0.010 0.756±0.004 41.49±0.514 20.63±0.274
 LSD at P≤0.05 0.99 0.32 0.31 0.33 0.004 0.015 1.48 1.27
Table 2: Effect of shikimic acid, salicylic acid and their combination on growth vigor of shoot of faba bean plant infected with chocolate spot disease. Data are represented as means ± standard errors from 10 replicates.