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	0.4^a	1.4^a	0.4^a	1.6^a	0.4	2.8	0.5
Cat129	2.3	0.4	2.3	0.5^ab	1.8^a	0.5^a	1.9^ab	0.5	3.6	0.7
Cat128	2.0	0.5	1.8	0.5^ab	1.7^a	0.6^a	2.1^ab	0.6	2.2	0.5
CR95	3.4	0.7	3.4	0.8^b	5.0^b	0.9^b	3.6^b	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

Means with the same letter within a column are not significantly different according to Tukey’s test (𝑃=0.05).