Effects of Harvesting Age and Barley Varieties on Morphological Characteristics, Biomass Yield, Chemical Composition, and Economic Benefits under Hydroponic Conditions in Fogera District, Ethiopia

Table 2

Mean plant height (PH), shoot length (SL), and leaf length (LL) of the four barley varieties harvested at four maturity stages (in days).

Harvesting age (days)	Varieties	PH	SL	LL
6	HB	9.4^g	7.33^j	5.06^fg
	D	9.2^g	7.19^j	4.93^g
	T	9.13^g	7.16^j	4.93^g
	L	8.43^g	6.53^j	4.56^g
	Mean	9.04	7.06	4.87
	SEM	0.58	0.57	0.46
8	HB	12.06^f	9.55^hi	6.99^de
	D	14.73^e	12.26^ef	9.25^c
	T	10.83^f	9.18^i	6.03^ef
	L	11.33^f	10.4^ghi	6.33^e
	Mean	12.24	10.35	7.11
	SEM	0.39	0.81	0.27
10	HB	14.1^e	10.96^bcd	7.76^d
	D	17.43^bc	14.58^cd	9.25^c
	T	15.36^de	11.75^efg	7.81^d
	L	18.13^b	14.96^bcd	9.6^c
	Mean	16.26	13.07	8.61
	SEM	0.58	0.66	0.32
12	HB	21.1^a	17.21^a	12.3^a
	D	21.26^a	16.41^ab	10.63^b
	T	16.63^cd	13.28^de	9.06^c
	L	18.33^b	15.06^bc	9.7b^c
	Mean	19.33	15.50	10.42
	SEM	0.25	0.24	0.28
Significance level
Harvesting age
Variety
Interaction

^abcdefghijmeans followed by different superscript letters in the column differ at ;  = significant at ; SEM, standard error of mean; HB, HB-1307; D, Debark-1; T, Tila; L, local.