Table 2.
Results of the 2003 analysis of variance of factors affecting dry weight and number of nodes of epicormic, long and short shoots
| Source | d.f. | Epicormic shoots |
Long shoots |
Short shoots |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean square | F-value | Mean square | F-value | Mean square | F-value | ||
| Dry weight | |||||||
| Epicormic removal | 1 | 21·41 | 20·48** | 1·75 | 2·23 | 0·003 | 0·24 |
| Crop load | 2 | 4·42 | 4·23* | 11·77 | 15·04** | 0·024 | 2·34 |
| Removal × crop | 2 | 2·50 | 2·40 | 1·75 | 2·23 | 0·004 | 0·43 |
| TCSA | 1 | 6·42 | 6·14* | 8·91 | 11·39** | 0·000 | 0 |
| Block | 5 | 1·39 | 1·14 | 0·89 | 1·14 | 0·025 | 2·45 |
| Error | 24 | 1·05 | 0·78 | 0·010 | |||
| Nodes | |||||||
| Epicormic removal | 1 | 20633427 | 6·78* | 367329 | 0·21 | 275398 | 0·34 |
| Crop load | 2 | 5106103 | 1·68 | 21928382 | 12·26** | 112296 | 0·14 |
| Removal × crop | 2 | 182864 | 0·06 | 1210072 | 0·68 | 539445 | 0·67 |
| TCSA | 1 | 4791105 | 1·57 | 5778020 | 3·23 | 30672 | 0·04 |
| Block | 2 | 3360437 | 1·10 | 2993492 | 1·67 | 1731232 | 2·15 |
| Error | 9 | 3045241 | 1789111 | 803503 | |||
* and **, P-values at 0·05 and 0·01 levels of significance, respectively.