Research Article

Shade Trees Spatial Distribution and Its Effect on Grains and Beverage Quality of Shaded Coffee Trees

Table 3

Plant height (m), canopy diameter (m), and plagiotropic branch length (cm) of coffee trees due to shade trees spatial distribution. Santo Antônio do Jardim, SP, 2015.

TreatmentsPlant heightCanopy diameterBranch length
m cm

D1L1.491.4519.56
D6L1.461.4317.12
D1E1.701.5019.36
D6E1.571.4118.11

VC%14.859.518.58

ns: nonsignificant according to test at 5% of significance. D1L: coffee trees on shade trees planting rows, distant one meter from the trunk; D6L: coffee trees on shade trees planting rows, distant six meters from the trunk; D1E: coffee plants between the rows of shade trees, parallel to treatment D1L; D6E: coffee plants between the rows of shade trees, parallel to treatment D6L. VC (%): variation coefficient.