Effect of Harvesting Stage on Sweet Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) Genotypes in Western Kenya
Table 3
Mean squares of four sweet sorghum genotypes evaluated at different harvesting stages for agronomic traits: juice extraction, brix, ethanol, grain weight, and days to flowering.
Sources of variation
df
Overall height (cm)
Height at flag leaf (cm)
Cane yield (ton ha−1)
Girth (mm)
Volume of juice (l ha−1)
Brix
Absolute ethanol (l ha−1)
Chlorophyll
Grain weight (tons ha−1)
Days to 50% flowering
Genotype
3
Stage
5
0.09
0.00
0.67
Rep
3
887.97
1585.91
0.36
1.26
698318
1.79
124572.87
3.61
70922
0.58
Genotypestage
15
0.09
0.00
18.37
1.12
Error
69
76.13
129.38
10.00
0.67
580792
0.82
129130.10
7.29
26835
0.09
0.49
0.67
0.87
0.89
0.97
0.96
0.92
0.96
0.99
0.99
df: degrees of freedom. ignificantly different at .
