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. 2006 Aug;98(2):351–360. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcl105

Table 3.

Analysis of variance of the effects of population (fixed), treatment (self- versus cross-fertilization, fixed) and maternal plant (random) nested within population

Life stage Source of variation d.f. MS F P
Seeds per fertilized ovule Treatment 1 3·66 34·71 0·000
Population 2 2·93 26·69 0·000
Maternal plant (population) 33 0·12 1·04 0·451
Treatment × population 2 0·55 5·19 0·010
Treatment × maternal plant (population) 33 0·11 1·61 0·026
Rate of germination Treatment 1 0·032 1·48 0·235
Population 2 4·304 77·77 0·000
Maternal plant (population) 27 0·055 2·55 0·009
Treatment × population 2 0·018 0·81 0·454
Survival to 2 weeks Treatment 1 0·009 1·50 0·231
Population 2 0·058 9·34 0·001
Maternal plant (population) 27 0·009 1·39 0·197
Treatment × population 2 0·021 3·36 0·050
Survival from 2 weeks to flowering Treatment 1 0·005 1·546 0·224
Population 2 0·005 1·850 0·177
Maternal plant (population) 27 0·003 0·868 0·643
Treatment × population 2 0·004 1·238 0·306
Above-ground biomass Treatment 1 27·02 12·88 0·001
Population 2 80·91 13·74 0·000
Maternal plant (population) 27 6·108 2·821 0·004
Treatment × population 2 1·222 0·579 0·567
Treatment × maternal plant (population) 27 2·166 2·754 0·000

Lack of replication within maternal plants precludes a test of the treatment × maternal plant interaction for germination and survival variables.