Research Article
Estimating the Broad-Sense Heritability of Early Growth of Cowpea
Table 1
Early growth rates (height at day 5 measured in cm) of 15 randomly selected varieties of cowpea (
data).
| | Variety | Origin | Plant 1 | Plant 2 | Plant 3 | Plant 4 | Average () |
| | CB46 | California | 4.0 | 4.5 | 11.5 | — | 6.66 | | UCR779 | Botswana | 9.0 | 9.5 | 8.5 | 7.5 | 8.62 | | IT97K-499-39 | Nigeria | 7.0 | 9.5 | 10.5 | 9.0 | 9.00 | | IT95K-1479 | Nigeria | 6.5 | 8.5 | 7.5 | 7.0 | 7.37 | | 24-125B-1 | Cameroon | 8.5 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 9.5 | 8.75 | | IT93K-503-1 | Nigeria | 10.0 | 7.5 | 8.5 | 11.0 | 9.25 | | IT93K-693-2 | Nigeria | 10.0 | 11.5 | 10.5 | 11.5 | 10.87 | | IT84S-2049 | Nigeria | 9.5 | 9.0 | 10.0 | 9.0 | 9.37 | | Prima | Nigeria | 10.0 | 11.0 | 9.0 | 10.0 | 10.00 | | 524B | California | 9.5 | 10.0 | 9.0 | 10.5 | 9.75 | | IT97K-819-132 | Nigeria | 5.0 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.0 | 6.75 | | IT82E-18 | Nigeria | 10.0 | 9.5 | 10.0 | 9.5 | 9.75 | | Bambe21 | Senegal | 12.0 | 11.0 | 12.0 | 12.0 | 11.75 | | SuVita2 | Burkina Faso | 12.0 | 11.0 | 10.5 | 12.0 | 11.37 | | KVx61-1-1 | Burkina Faso | 8.5 | 9.0 | 8.5 | — | 8.66 |
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