Table 2.
Percentage of flowers and pods that aborted and seed yield per plant at maturity on primary and secondary branches along the whole branch, and for those produced after treatments were imposed in Experiment 2
Treatmentsa | Primary branchb |
Secondary branchb |
Whole plantb | ||
After drought | Whole branch | After drought | Whole branch | ||
Flower abortion (%) | |||||
CR | 29.1 b | 19.2 b | 39.8 b | 17.7 b | 18.4 b |
SR | 52.8 a | 32.4 a | 68.5 a | 50.6 a | 39.9 a |
Pod abortion (%) | |||||
CR | 56.8 b | 37.4 a | 55.6 b | 53.2 a | 45.9 a |
SR | 78.3 a | 47.8 a | 73.1 a | 55.9 a | 49.3 a |
Seed yield (g plant−1) | |||||
CR | 1.65 a | 3.66 a | 2.03 a | 2.91 a | 6.57 a |
SR | 0.40 b | 2.83 a | 0.32 b | 0.86 b | 3.70 b |
C, well-watered treatment; S, water-stressed treatment; R, Rupali.
Values with the same letter within a column are not significantly different (P >0.05).