Table 5.
Yield components of wheat (2017 and 2018 combined analysis).
| Treatments | DTH (days) | DTM (days) | PH (cm) | PL (cm) | Tillers /Plant |
Grain/Panicle | TSW (g) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre + Post | 56.0ab | 90.8 | 76.6 | 8.08a | 5.6 | 38.1a | 32.7a |
| Pre | 57.7a | 90.7 | 74.3 | 7.3ab | 4.5 | 32.5b | 26.6b |
| Post | 53.7bc | 91.0 | 74.3 | 7.7ab | 4.7 | 38.2a | 29.5ab |
| Rain-fed | 52.0c | 91.0 | 74.4 | 7.2b | 4.0 | 34.4ab | 28.1ab |
| Mean | 54.8 | 90.9 | 74.9 | 7.6 | 4.7 | 35.8 | 29.2 |
| LSD (0.05) | 3.32 | Ns | Ns | 0.83 | Ns | 5.20 | 4.57 |
| CV (%) | 3.5 | 0.7 | 3.5 | 5.5 | 21.2 | 7.3 | 7.8 |
Note: DTH, DTM, PH, PL, and TSW are days to 50% heading, days to 50% maturity, plant height, panicle length, and thousand seed weight, respectively. Means within columns followed by different letters differ significantly at P = 0.05.