Table 1.
Maximum tiller number per plant (Ntiller,max) and total number of tillers for each tiller rank (T_T#), and total fertile tiller number per plant (FTN) and number of fertile tillers for each tiller rank (F_T#) for each genotype (G) across all environments (E) or each E across all G
| Ntiller,max | T_T1 | T_T2 | T_T3 | T_T4 | T_T5 | FTN | F_T1 | F_T2 | F_T3 | F_T4 | F_T5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hybrid 1 | 1·19 | 0·01 | 0·26 | 0·58 | 0·33 | 0·00 | 0·60 | 0·00 | 0·09 | 0·42 | 0·09 | 0·00 |
| Hybrid 2 | 1·49 | 0·03 | 0·33 | 0·69 | 0·43 | 0·00 | 1·04 | 0·00 | 0·11 | 0·56 | 0·38 | 0·00 |
| Hybrid 3 | 1·09 | 0·04 | 0·25 | 0·58 | 0·23 | 0·00 | 0·73 | 0·00 | 0·13 | 0·40 | 0·20 | 0·00 |
| Hybrid 4 | 2·24 | 0·14 | 0·69 | 0·89 | 0·49 | 0·03 | 1·78 | 0·04 | 0·40 | 0·84 | 0·47 | 0·02 |
| Hybrid 5 | 1·76 | 0·01 | 0·50 | 0·78 | 0·44 | 0·03 | 1·76 | 0·00 | 0·38 | 0·80 | 0·58 | 0·00 |
| Hybrid 6 | 1·90 | 0·00 | 0·47 | 0·83 | 0·60 | 0·00 | 1·33 | 0·00 | 0·37 | 0·70 | 0·27 | 0·00 |
| Expt 1 | 2·58 | 0·01 | 0·41 | 0·99 | 0·98 | 0·19 | 1·53 | 0·00 | 0·20 | 0·84 | 0·49 | 0·00 |
| Expt 2 | 2·66 | 0·09 | 0·60 | 0·92 | 0·87 | 0·18 | 1·86 | 0·03 | 0·40 | 0·83 | 0·56 | 0·03 |
| Expt 3 | 1·21 | 0·05 | 0·36 | 0·56 | 0·24 | 0·00 | 0·68 | 0·00 | 0·20 | 0·32 | 0·15 | 0·00 |
| Expt 4 | 1·52 | 0·10 | 0·65 | 0·65 | 0·12 | 0·00 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Expt 5 | 1·00 | 0·02 | 0·09 | 0·70 | 0·19 | 0·00 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| G | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | * | *** | *** | *** | * |
| E | *** | * | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | ns | *** | *** | *** | ns |
| G × E | + | ns | ns | ** | *** | ns | * | ns | * | ns | *** | ns |
Significance levels for G, E and G × E interaction effects are indicated: n.s., not significant (P > 0·1); + P < 0·10; *P < 0·05; **P < 0·01; ***P < 0·001.