Table 1.
F- and P-values of the analyses of variance of the effects of growth unit (GU) position (apical, lateral), cultivar (4) and year (2) and their interactions for six morphological variables describing the growth units of four mango cultivars: growth unit length, number of leaves, leaf dry weight, individual leaf area, growth unit leaf area and axialization index
| Effects | d.f. | Stem length |
No. of leaves |
Leaf d. wt |
Individual leaf area |
GU leaf area |
Axialization index |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | P | F | P | F | P | F | P | F | P | F | P | ||
| Position | 1 | 24·0 | <0·001 | 490·9 | <0·001 | 391·1 | <0·001 | 195·4 | <0·001 | 449·2 | <0·001 | 245·6 | <0·001 |
| Cultivar | 3 | 65·1 | <0·001 | 40·4 | <0·001 | 27·9 | <0·001 | 26·1 | <0·001 | 47·2 | <0·001 | 16·4 | <0·001 |
| Year | 1 | 18·4 | <0·001 | 10·9 | 0·001 | 8·4 | 0·004 | 7·2 | 0·008 | 15·8 | <0·001 | 2·3 | 0·130 |
| Position × cultivar | 3 | 4·6 | 0·003 | 15·4 | <0·001 | 16·7 | <0·001 | 4·2 | 0·006 | 22·8 | <0·001 | 4·8 | 0·003 |
| Position × year | 1 | 0·9 | 0·346 | 16·3 | <0·001 | 14·4 | <0·001 | 6·5 | 0·011 | 22·5 | <0·001 | 3·5 | 0·061 |
| Cultivar × year | 3 | 4·3 | 0·005 | 6·8 | <0·001 | 1·6 | 0·192 | 2·6 | 0·049 | 3·7 | 0·012 | 1·2 | 0·293 |
| Position × cultivar × year | 3 | 0·4 | 0·742 | 5·0 | 0·002 | 1·3 | 0·274 | 0·6 | 0·630 | 2·1 | 0·106 | 0·8 | 0·513 |
| Residuals | 290 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Sample size per cultivar: ‘Cogshall’, n = 73; ‘Irwin’, n = 64; ‘José’, n = 64; ‘Kensington Pride’, n = 105. d.f., degrees of freedom.