Research Article
Effect of Soil Moisture Deficit Stress on Biomass Accumulation of Four Coffee (Coffea arabica) Varieties in Zimbabwe
Table 1
Root biomass of coffee seedlings before, and after stressing and after recovery.
| Variety | Initial | 21 days | 28 days | 21 + 14 days | 28 + 14 days | Fresh | Dry | Fresh | Dry | Fresh | Dry | Fresh | Dry | Fresh | Dry |
| SL28 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 0.4a | 1.4a | 0.4a | 1.6a | 0.4 | 2.8 | 0.5 | Cat129 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 0.5ab | 1.8a | 0.5a | 1.9ab | 0.5 | 3.6 | 0.7 | Cat128 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 0.5ab | 1.7a | 0.6a | 2.1ab | 0.6 | 2.2 | 0.5 | CR95 | 3.4 | 0.7 | 3.4 | 0.8b | 5.0b | 0.9b | 3.6b | 0.9 | 5.1 | 0.9 |
| P | 0.167 | 0.099 | 0.338 | 0.025 | 0.007 | 0.004 | 0.042 | 0.119 | 0.171 | 0.442 |
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Means with the same letter within a column are not significantly different according to Tukey’s test ().
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