Results show that significant differences were not detected for percent germination and leaf length of the seedling of the nine Philippine papaya genotypes based on ANOVA and DMRT test at 0.05 level of significance. On the other hand, significant differences for leaf width and length of the primary root of seedlings were detected using the same tests.
The highest percent seed germination was observed in genotype 4172 and 4173 with 98.33% and 96.67%, respectively. The longest and widest leaf of germinated seedling were observed in genotype 4173. In addition, genotype 5648 had the longest primary root at 63.31 millimeters among the nine Philippine papaya genotypes tested.