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Table 6.

Effect of Egyptian clover cultivars and dodder control treatments on seed yield parameters of clover in the 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 seasons.

Cultivars/treatments	Rate fed⁻¹	No. seeds head⁻¹		1000 Seed weight (g)		Seed yield (kg fed⁻¹)
Cultivars/treatments	Rate fed⁻¹	1st Season	2nd Season	1st Season	2nd Season	1st Season	2nd Season
Gemmiza 1		45.07^b	47.37^b	3.05^a	3.21^a	309.8^b	325.5^b
Helali		48.74^a	51.26^a	2.92^b	3.07^b	323.6^a	340.1^a
Giza 6		41.96^c	44.07^c	2.86^b	3.00^b	286.4^c	300.4^c
LSD_0.05		1.62	1.74	0.071	0.100	10.84	11.61
Bioherbicide	10 kg	38.9^d	41.0^e	2.48^f	2.60^d	263.1^d	276.2^de
Bioherbicide	20 kg	46.2^c	48.6^d	3.09^d	3.26^bc	312.9^c	328.4^c
Bioherbicide	30 kg	39.8^d	41.9^e	2.62^e	2.76^d	267.8^d	281.1^d
Si-NPs	14 g	46.6^c	49.0^cd	3.02^d	3.19^c	315.7^c	331.4^c
Si-NPs	22 g	49.8^b	52.2^b	3.25^b	3.42^a	334.5^b	350.8^b
Si-NPs	30 g	48.3^b	50.8^bc	3.15^c	3.30^b	329.5^b	345.8^b
Glyphosate	33.1 g	48.4^b	50.8^bc	3.19^c	3.34^b	332.4^b	349.1^b
Infested		36.6^e	38.6^f	2.34^g	2.47^e	253.6^e	268.1^e
Non-infested		52.8^a	55.3^a	3.35^a	3.52^a	349.9^a	366.9^a
LSD_0.05		1.68	2.12	0.052	0.109	7.09	11.23

1st Season = 2021/2022 season, 2nd Season = 2022/2023 season. Values (means) followed by different letter(s) are significantly different according to LSD at p ≤ 0.05. LSD values are in bold.