Estimating the Broad-Sense Heritability of Early Growth of Cowpea

Table 2

Early growth rates (height at day 5 measured in cm) of 15 randomly selected pots of cowpea from the same variety (CB46) (the data).

Variety	Pot	Plant 1	Plant 2	Plant 3	Plant 4	Average (𝑋)
CB46	R1	9.0	8.0	8.0	9.5	8.62
CB46	R2	12.5	12.5	11.0	12.5	12.12
CB46	R3	10.5	9.0	8.5	—	9.33
CB46	R4	9.5	10.5	9.5	7.0	9.12
CB46	R5	8.0	8.0	7.5	8.0	7.87
CB46	R6	8.5	10.0	8.5	8.5	8.87
CB46	R7	5.0	11.0	9.0	8.5	8.37
CB46	R8	9.5	9.0	8.5	8.5	8.87
CB46	R9	8.5	9.0	9.5	9.0	9.00
CB46	R10	8.0	7.0	6.5	7.5	7.25
CB46	R11	8.0	7.5	9.5	10.0	8.75
CB46	R12	8.5	7.5	9.0	9.0	8.50
CB46	R13	10.0	9.5	8.0	7.0	8.62
CB46	R14	7.0	9.5	9.0	—	8.50
CB46	R15	7.5	8.0	8.0	8.0	7.87