Effect of Soil Moisture Deficit Stress on Biomass Accumulation of Four Coffee (Coffea arabica) Varieties in Zimbabwe

Table 3

Shoot biomass of coffee seedlings before, and after stressing and after recovery.

Shoots	Initial		21 days		28 days		21 + 14 days		28 + 14 days
variety	Fresh	Dry	Fresh	Dry	Fresh	Dry	Fresh	Dry	Fresh	Dry
SL28	6.3	1.3	5.2	1.6	4.7	1.6^a	7.6	1.8	6.8	1.6
Cat129	7.4	1.6	7.0	1.7	4.7	1.7^a	8.1	1.9	9.5	2.4
Cat128	6.7	1.4	5.3	1.8	5.8	1.8^a	8.8	2.0	6.7	1.5
CR95	9.5	1.9	9.5	3.4	6.4	2.8^b	8.6	2.6	7.5	2.4
P	0.465	0.398	0.255	0.094	0.351	0.009	0.836	0.344	0.764	0.311

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