Effect of Plant Spacing on Agronomic Performance and Fodder Quality of Four Tepary Bean (Phaseolus acutifolius A. Gray) Cultivars
Table 2
Mean square variances from combined analysis of variance for yield and related components for four tepary bean cultivars evaluated for three plant spacings over two seasons (2015-2016 and 2016-2017).
Source of variation
Df
Biomass (kg/ha)
Plant height (cm)
Pod yield (kg/ha)
Harvest index
Seed yield (kg/ha)
Cultivar
3
107262 ns
36.56 ns
72552
14.99 ns
25500
Spacing
2
1541762
1.90 ns
443358
72.27
243778
Spacing × cultivar
6
23225 ns
5.02 ns
6676 ns
11.59 ns
5260 ns
Year
1
3355633
25.83 ns
1196354
109.02
912049
Spacing × year
2
197414 ns
0.97 ns
121933 ns
97.88
81671 ns
Cultivar × year
3
33886 ns
54.00 ns
11687 ns
10.68 ns
2228 ns
Spacing × cultivar × year
6
21156 ns
9.69 ns
13253 ns
18.96 ns
5213 ns
Residual
24
180146
33.42
93003
23.55
41878
Mean
981.0
24.56
534.0
44.06
434.0
CV%
20.20
4.4
23.2
0.8
21.8
CV: coefficient of variation; significant at ; significant at .
