Research Article
Effect of Soil Moisture Deficit Stress on Biomass Accumulation of Four Coffee (Coffea arabica) Varieties in Zimbabwe
Table 5
Total plant biomass before stressing, after stressing, and after recovery.
| Total | Initial | 21 days | 28 days | 21 + 14 days | 28 + 14 days | variety | Fresh | Dry | Fresh | Dry | Fresh | Dry | Fresh | Dry | Fresh | Dry |
| SL28 | 8.1 | 1.7 | 6.9 | 2.0a | 6.1a | 2.0a | 9.1 | 2.2 | 9.6 | 2.2 | Cat129 | 9.7 | 2.0 | 9.3 | 2.2ab | 6.5ab | 2.1a | 9.9 | 2.5 | 13.1 | 3.1 | Cat128 | 8.7 | 1.9 | 7.1 | 2.3ab | 7.5ab | 2.4a | 10.9 | 2.5 | 8.9 | 2.0 | CR95 | 12.8 | 2.6 | 12.8 | 4.2b | 11.3b | 3.7b | 12.2 | 3.5 | 12.6 | 3.3 |
| P | 0.327 | 0.23 | 0.246 | 0.038 | 0.037 | <0.001 | 0.379 | 0.123 | 0.661 | 0.36 |
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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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