Evaluation of Seven Oat (Avena sativa) Genotypes for Biomass Yield and Quality Parameters under Different Locations of Western Oromia, Ethiopia
Table 1
Combined analysis of variance for herbage dry matter (DM) and digestible organic matter (OM) yield and quality parameters of the seven oat genotypes tested across six and two environments, respectively.
Parameters (t/ha)
F probability ( = 0.05)
Mean
CV (%)
R2
Genotype
Environments
Forage DM yield
0.0001
<0.0001
<0.0001
8.09
13.06
0.87
Digestible OM yield
<0.0001
<0.0001
<0.0001
5.02
13.08
0.88
DM (%)
<0.0001
0.0363
0.0143
55.15
3.04
0.89
CP (% DM)
<0.0001
0.4786
0.0346
5.47
11.72
0.83
NDF (% DM)
<0.0001
0.7685
<0.0001
70.72
1.89
0.81
ADF (% DM)
<0.0001
0.0021
<0.0001
57.29
1.89
0.98
ADL (% DM)
<0.0001
<.0001
<0.0001
4.87
7.2
0.95
Ash (% DM)
0.0159
0.3461
0.1939
8.74
7.54
0.58
IVOMD (% DM)
<0.0001
0.2419
0.0108
61.91
2.07
0.86
ME (MJ/kg DM)
<0.0001
0.2418
0.0103
9.29
2.07
0.86
a,b,cMeans within a row with different superscripts differ significantly ( < 0.05); EMS = error mean square.
