Plant and Endophyte Effect on Fiber, N, and P Concentrations in Tall Fescue

Table 4

Analysis of variance P-values for dry matter concentrations of ADF, NDF, N, and P content of endophyte infected and free tall fescue clones in the greenhouse study.

Source	df	ADF	NDF	N	P
Plant	2	<.0001	0.0002	<.0001	0.0011
Endophyte	1	<.0001	0.0028	.0047	0.0070
Maturity	2	<.0001	<.0001	<.0001	<.0001
P trt	2	0.4675	0.8586	<.0001	0.0031
Plant × endophyte	2	<.0001	0.0002	0.0002	0.0005
Plant × maturity	4	0.0003	0.0103	0.2648	0.5425
Endophyte × maturity	2	0.2741	0.6579	0.9190	0.3696
Plant × endophyte × maturity	4	0.0080	0.0228	0.0051	0.0161
Plant × P trt	4	0.0753	0.5002	0.0258	0.3851
E status × P trt	2	0.0820	0.1778	0.7406	0.9525
Plant × endophyte × P trt	4	0.1568	0.7503	0.2646	0.3985
Maturity × P trt	4	0.0867	0.1442	0.0001	0.0021
Plant × maturity × P trt	8	0.3399	0.0639	0.4829	0.9244
Endophyte × maturity × P trt	4	0.1141	0.5705	0.1611	0.1796
Plant × Endophyte × maturity × P trt	8	0.5522	0.6452	0.9616	0.9573