Table 3.
Results of the 2004 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 | 0·000 | 1·01 | 0·134 | 0·55 | 0·038 | 0·54 |
| Crop load | 2 | 0·000 | 0·89 | 0·499 | 2·04 | 0·025 | 0·35 |
| Removal × crop | 2 | 0·000 | 0·97 | 0·038 | 0·15 | 0·100 | 1·43 |
| TCSA | 1 | 0·000 | 0·00 | 0·643 | 2·62 | 0·388 | 5·55* |
| Block | 5 | 0·000 | 0·51 | 0·539 | 2·2 | 0·079 | 1·13 |
| Error | 21 | 0·000 | 0·070 | ||||
| 19 | 0·245 | ||||||
| Nodes | |||||||
| Epicormic removal | 1 | 2670 | 0·88 | 393 | 0 | 3271659 | 0·47 |
| Crop load | 2 | 1363 | 0·45 | 3272123 | 4·54 | 202223 | 0·03 |
| Removal × crop | 2 | 1807 | 0·59 | 2933230 | 4·07 | 7510427 | 1·07 |
| TCSA | 1 | 3972 | 1·30 | 5167053 | 7·17* | 8460124 | 1·2 |
| Block | 2 | 973 | 0·32 | 3678724 | 5·11 | 2388590 | 0·34 |
| Error | 7 | 3045 | 7034994 | ||||
| 5 | 720504 | ||||||
* P-value at 0·05 level of significance.