Research Article

Intercropping and Rhizobium Inoculation Affected Microclimate and Performance of Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Varieties

Table 3

Mean squares from analysis of variance (ANOVA) for soil moisture content (SMC %), soil temperature (ST oC), and leaf temperature (LT oC) common bean.

Sources of variationsDegree of freedomMean squares
Soil moisture content (%)Soil temperature (°C)Leaf temperature (°C)

Replication27.1471.15060.119
Variety (V)17.101 ns1.0180 ns0.474 ns
Spatial arrangement (SA)2275.31980.0880101.844
Rhizobium inoculation (RI)10.365 ns0.0093 ns0.0331 ns
VSA20.253 ns0.8453 ns0.116 ns
VRI11.849 ns0.7210 ns0.059 ns
SaRI24.320 ns0.0115 ns0.230 ns
VSARI21.494 ns0.2356 ns0.048 ns
Error222.8040.31000.522

( < 0.05), ( < 0.01), ( < 0.001), and ns ( > 0.05) indicate significance, highly significant and very highly significant, and nonsignificant variations, respectively.