Assessing the Fodder Potentials of Drought-Tolerant Maize (Zea mays L.) Hybrids in West Africa

Table 5

Coefficient of correlations between nutritive and some phenotypic parameters of DT hybrid maize cultivars evaluated for fodder yield.

Grain yield (t ha^−1)

LSS

NPH

NEH

Leaf (t ha^−1)

Stem (t ha^−1)

DMY (t ha^−1)

DM (%)

Ash (%)

CP (%)

NDF (%)

ADF (%)

ME (MJ/kg)

LSS

−0.659

NPH

0.503

−0.110

NEH

0.895

−0.516

0.588

Leaf (t ha^−1)

0.120

−0.183

0.163

0.138

Stem (t ha^−1)

0.006

0.056

0.092

0.054

0.412

DMY (t ha^−1)

0.012

0.020

0.117

0.060

0.554

0.979

DM (%)

−0.128

0.144

0.040

−0.082

0.350

0.447

0.446

Ash (%)

−0.146

0.109

−0.091

−0.082

−0.083

−0.092

−0.096

−0.116

CP (%)

0.087

−0.127

−0.135

0.147

−0.263

−0.394

−0.398

−0.341

0.438

NDF (%)

0.083

−0.048

0.092

0.013

0.365

0.287

0.328

0.570

−0.672

−0.404

ADF (%)

0.161

−0.218

−0.004

−0.011

0.353

0.110

0.151

0.386

−0.473

−0.439

0.647

ME (MJ/kg)

−0.057

−0.078

−0.322

−0.129

−0.169

−0.233

−0.212

−0.464

0.244

0.220

−0.359

−0.148

IVOMD (%)

−0.119

−0.017

−0.321

−0.178

−0.184

−0.189

−0.166

−0.448

0.377

0.240

−0.462

−0.283

0.947

CP = crude protein, NDF = neutral detergent fibre, ADF = acid detergent fibre, ME = metabolizable energy, IVOMD = in vitro organic matter digestibility, DM = dry matter, DMY = dry matter yield, LSS = leaf senesces score, NPH = numbers of plants at harvest, NEH = numbers of ear at harvest. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).