Table 3.
Effects of rainfall manipulation treatment (TE vs. CK), bamboo age (A) and their interactive effects on soluble sugar, starch, and non-structural carbohydrate in different organs of moso bamboo plantations across the sampling period, analyzed with two-way analysis of variance.
| Effects | Rainfall treatment (R) | Age (A) | R × A | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| d f | F | p | d f | F | p | d f | F | p | |
| Soluble sugar | |||||||||
| Leaves | 1 | 7.676 | 0.017 | 1 | 0.300 | 0.746 | 1 | 1.723 | 0.220 |
| Branches | 1 | 0.025 | 0.876 | 1 | 11.244 | 0.002 | 1 | 0.466 | 0.639 |
| Root | 1 | 0.4705 | 0.049 | 1 | 12.147 | 0.001 | 1 | 1.593 | 0.243 |
| Starch | |||||||||
| Leaves | 1 | 4.009 | 0.068 | 1 | 5.646 | 0.019 | 1 | 0.609 | 0.560 |
| Branches | 1 | 0.685 | 0.424 | 1 | 15.973 | 0.000 | 1 | 2.824 | 0.099 |
| Root | 1 | 19.355 | 0.001 | 1 | 35.976 | 0.000 | 1 | 0.847 | 0.453 |
| Non-structural carbohydrate | |||||||||
| Leaves | 1 | 0.326 | 0.578 | 1 | 2.562 | 0.118 | 1 | 0.287 | 0.756 |
| Branches | 1 | 2.302 | 0.155 | 1 | 9.016 | 0.004 | 1 | 0.085 | 0.919 |
| Root | 1 | 15.895 | 0.002 | 1 | 31.921 | 0.000 | 1 | 1.071 | 0.373 |
F and p values are given. The bold value meant significant difference at 0.05 level.