Effect of Plant Spacing on Agronomic Performance and Fodder Quality of Four Tepary Bean (Phaseolus acutifolius A. Gray) Cultivars

Table 3

Main effect of cultivar and plant spacing on yield and yield attributes of tepary bean during 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 growing season.

	Biomass (kg/ha)		Plant height (cm)		Pod yield (kg/ha)		Harvest index		Seed yield (kg/ha)
Treatments	2015-2016	2016-2017	2015-2016	2016-2017	2015-2016	2016-2017	2015-2016	2016-2017	2015-2016	2016-2017
Cultivar
GK010	634	1170	20.23	25.58	306	613	42.95	43.58	264.3	511
GK011	706	1151	22.51	25.21	359	651	43.24	46.21	300.5	538
GK012	891	1216	27.07	24.9	501	698	41.72	45.99	370.1	567
Motsumi	832	1252	26.02	24.94	453	689	43.39	45.37	351	570
LSD	465.5	453.7	12.13	3.29	345.9	291.6	4.59	4.13	190.8	220.2
Spacing
10	936	1568	23.79	25.08	468	882	38.89	45.8	365	718
20	750	1135	23.58	25.13	410	634	43.29	44.74	321	518
30	611	889	24.5	25.26	453	471	46.3	45.33	279	404
LSD	103.2	245	3.42	2.88	85.2	176.9	4.24	3.14	47.5	128.9
Mean	765	1197	23.96	25.16	405	662	42.83	45.29	321	547
CV%	15.6	19	16.5	13.3	24.3	30.9	11.5	8	17.1	27.3

LSD: least significant difference; CV: coefficient variation.