Research Article

Inheritance of Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Inbred Progenies of Tropical Maize Based on Multivariate Diallel Analysis

Table 1

Chemical attributes of the soils collected where experiments with high level of nitrogen availability (high N) and low level of nitrogen availability (low N) were posteriorly set up.

Attributes Experiments
High NLow N
Envir 1Envir 2Envir 1Envir 2

pH H2O5.935.15.865.03
P (Melich) mg kg−15.539.638.136.73
K+ (cmolc kg−1)57.669056.66116.00
Ca2+ (cmolc kg−1)2.30.72.060.80
Mg2+ (cmolc kg−1)0.90.20.830.30
Al3+ (cmolc kg−1)0.10.330.10.30
H + Al (cmolc kg−1)2.44.332.54.83
CEC-t (cmolc kg−1)3.431.463.131.70
Organic matter (deg kg−1)2.662.962.633.13