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

Table 5

Combined mean morphological and yield-related performance of open-pollinated maize varieties in 2017/18.

Varieties	Days to anthesis	Days to silking	Plant height (cm)	Cob length (cm)	Cob diameter (cm)	Number of cobs ha^−1
Melkasa-7	58.5^bc	62^ab	194	16	4.4	37217^cd
Melkasa-6Q	60^ab	62.5^ab	179	15.7	4.5	41358^b
Melkasa-4	57^c	60.5^b	175	16.1	4.3	39413^bc
Gibe-3	61.5^a	66^a	195	17	4.6	38955^bc
Melkasa-5	54^d	59^b	169	15.3	4.3	33333^e
Melkasa-2	59.5^abc	62.5^ab	202	17	4.5	46914^a
Local	61.5^a	65.5^a	201	16	4.6	35473^de
Mean	59	62.6	187.8	16.2	4.4	38952
CV	3.2	4.9	12.2	12.3	5.9	7.2
LSD (0.05)	2.3	3.7	27.2	2.3	0.3	3355

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.