Growth and Yield Performance of Roselle Accessions as Influenced by Intercropping with Maize in the Guinea Savannah Ecology of Ghana

Table 4

Seasonal variation in intercrop and accessions’ performance.

	NL	CFY	CDY	SDY	CYF	TDB
Cropping system × season
IC × '16	148.30	1.89	0.33	3.38	6.30	5.28
IC × '17	153.10	3.46	0.40	3.91	10.07	4.33
S × '16	145.70	1.50	0.19	3.34	4.44	4.73
S × '17	167.40	3.28	0.38	2.53	13.06	2.89
LSD (0.05)	36.5	0.74	0.08	0.81	2.32	1.11
Accession × season
A1 × '16	86.80	1.50	0.25	2.93	6.37	4.03
A1 × '17	153.20	2.05	0.22	1.77	12.28	2.00
A2 × '16	189.50	2.40	0.40	4.17	6.22	6.55
A2 × '17	181.40	4.67	0.55	3.62	13.60	4.13
A3 × '16	164.70	1.18	0.13	2.98	3.53	4.43
A3 × '17	146.10	3.38	0.40	4.28	8.80	4.70
LSD (0.05)	44.7	0.9	0.10	0.99	2.85	1.36

A1 = Bissap; A2 = Local; A3 = Samadah; IC = intercrop; S = sole; '16 and '17 are the cropping seasons in 2016 and 2017, respectively; NL = number of leaves per plant; CDY = calyx dry yield (t/ha); SDY = shoot dry yield (t/ha); CYF = calyx yield fraction (%); CFY = calyx fresh yield (t/ha); TDB = total aboveground dry biomass (t/ha); LSD = least significant difference.