Participatory Evaluation of Open Pollinated Maize (Zea mays L.) Varieties for Green Cob Production Under Irrigation in the North Shewa Lowlands, Ethiopia

Table 3

Mean morphological and yield-related performance of open-pollinated maize varieties in 2018.

Varieties	Days to anthesis	Days to silking	Days to maturity	Plant height (cm)	Cob length (cm)	Cob diameter (cm)	Number of cobs ha^−1
Melkasa-7	68^a	72^a	100	215	16	4.3	33951^bc
Melkasa-6Q	62^c	64^cd	99	171	15.4	4	39506^b
Melkasa-4	60^c	63^d	103	175	15.2	4	36420^b
Gibe-3	63^c	68^bc	105	184	15	4.3	38272^b
Melkasa-5	64^b	67^bc	98	175	14.5	4.1	24074^d
Melkasa-2	61^c	63^d	95	202	16	4.2	53704^a
Local	65^b	70^ab	104	201	14	4.4	29630^cd
Mean	63.3	66.7	100.6	189	15.1	4.2	36508
CV	1.8	3.2	1.7	10.8	16.9	7.8	10.2
LSD (0.05)	2.05	3.79	2.96	36	4.5	0.58	6634

CV = coefficient of variance; LSD = least significant difference at ();  = highly significant difference at ; significant values are assigned with different letters. Similar letters indicate no significant difference between varieties; the letters are ordered alphabetically from high to low scores.