The Response of Durum Wheat to the Preceding Crop in a Mediterranean Environment

Table 5

Grain yield, vegetative plant part, and kernel number per spike. Year × variety interaction.

Treatments	Variety	Grain yield	Vegetative plant part	Kernels per spike
Year		(g m^−2)	(g m^−2)	( spike^−1)
2007-2008	Levante	570.0^a	619.4^a	32.9^a
	Normanno	343.9^c	457.1^bc	23.7^cd
	Saragolla	455.0^b	501.0^b	35.8^a
	Svevo	464.5^b	621.5^a	26.2^bc
2008-2009	Levante	307.1^cd	445.4^bcd	26.4^bc
	Normanno	305.2^cd	451.2^bcd	25.2^bcd
	Saragolla	302.7^cd	375.6^cd	28.0^b
	Svevo	263.1^d	363.8^d	21.7^d

Within columns, numbers followed by the same letter are not significantly different at ≤ 0.05.