Evaluation of Seven Oat (Avena sativa) Genotypes for Biomass Yield and Quality Parameters under Different Locations of Western Oromia, Ethiopia

Table 2

Herbage dry matter (DM) and digestible organic matter (OM) yield mean values of the seven oat genotypes tested at each location over the three years (2014, 2015, and 2016).

Genotypes

Herbage DM yield

Combined

Digestible OM yield

Combined

2014

2015

2016

2014

2015

2016

BK

BB

BK

BB

BK

BB

BK

BB

BK

BB

BK

BB

ILRI 5453

13.57^a

12.89^a

7.87

6.74^ab

7.27^bc

7.16^a

8.56^ab

8.24^a

6.24^b

5.06^a

4.43^b

4.67^ab

4.71^a

5.56^a

ILRI 5518

8.23^e

6.81^c

8.54

6.81^ab

8.13^abc

5.64^ab

7.36^d

5.05^c

4.17^c

5.24^a

4.17^bc

4.99^ab

3.45^bc

4.51^c

ILRI 6207

12.83^ab

7.09^c

7.33

6.15^b

7.82^abc

6.76^ab

7.74^cd

6.92^b

4.22^c

4.51^a

3.65^bc

4.82^ab

4.02^abc

4.69^bc

ILRI 6710

11.97^bc

12.38^a

7.6

7.99^a

8.33^ab

5.89^ab

9.03^a

8.18^a

8.25^a

4.97^aa

5.33^a

5.45^a

3.93^abc

5.96^a

ILRI 712

10.59^d

9.49^b

7.59

6.03^b

6.66^cd

4.85^b

8.1^bc

6.55^b

7.44^a

4.69^a

3.48^c

4.12^b

2.8^c

4.85^bc

ILRI 8237

10.93^cd

10.32^b

5.97

5.71^b

9.24^a

7.08^a

8.21^bc

7.83^a

6.24^b

3.61^b

3.45^c

5.58^a

4.28^ab

4.96^b

Jasari

11.25^cd

5.65^c

7.52

7.11^ab

5.07^d

7.21^a

7.69^cd

6.61^b

3.42^c

4.54^a

4.3^bc

3.06^c

4.36^ab

4.64^bc

Mean

11.34

9.23

7.49

6.65

7.5

6.37

8.1

7.05

5.71

4.66

4.12

4.67

3.94

5.02

LSD

1.36

1.73

1.4

1.41

1.59

1.99

0.7

0.86

1.09

0.87

0.88

0.97

1.22

0.44

CV

6.74

10.55

10.52

11.94

11.88

17.54

13.06

6.82

10.82

10.52

12.02

11.68

17.45

13.08

= 0.05

ns

ns

ns

ns

^a,b,c,d,eMeans within a row with different superscripts differ significantly ( < 0.05);  < 0.001;  < 0.01;  < 0.05; BK = Bako location; BB = Boneya Boshe location; ILRI = International Livestock Research Institute.