Durum Wheat in Conventional and Organic Farming: Yield Amount and Pasta Quality in Southern Italy

Table 3

Yield components: effect of cropping system and cultivar.

	Biomass Yield	Plant Height	Harvest Index	Spikes		Average weight	Yellowberry	Hectoliter weight
	Mg ha^−1	cm	%	Num·m^−2	g spike^−1	mg grain^−1	%	g Hl^−1
Cultivar
Matt	10.8 b	63 a	24.0 b	573 a	0.76 c	43.1 b	21.5	84 a
Saragolla	11.9 ab	67 a	32.1 a	334 c	1.41 a	48.5 b	14.8	82 b
Karalis	14.2 a	52 b	20.6 b	341 c	1.10 b	57.6 a	22.9	85 a
Pablo	12.6 ab	51 b	22.5 b	491 ab	0.58 c	48.4 b	26.0	79 c
San Carlo	10.1 b	56 ab	29.1 a	448 abc	1.00 b	49.5 b	30.5	81 bc
Significance	0.05	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.01	n.s.	0.01
Cropping system
Organic	12.3	61.5 a	23.5 b	415	0.96	48.8	35.6 a	82
Conventional	11.6	54.4 b	27.9 a	461	0.98	50.2	10.6 b	83
Significance	n.s.	0.02	0.02	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	0.01	n.s.

Different letters indicate significant differences per 𝑃≤0.05, n.s.: not significant.