Table 1.
Harvest yield, unit weight, percentage of dry matter, and plant nutrient concentrations presented as average ± standard deviation (n = 3 plots per system and year). p(system) and p(year) are p values of the two-way ANOVA with system (C, O1, O2) and year (2007 and 2008) as factors (n = 6 per system or n = 9 per year). Where p(system) <0.05, systems not sharing a common superscript row-wise are significantly different (Student’s t test, n = 3 per system) for that year
Year | System | p(system) | p(year) | |||
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C | O1 | O2 | ||||
Yield (1,000 kg FW/ha) | 2007 | 87.2 ± 7.6a | 67.6 ± 8.3b | 72.5 ± 9.3ab | 0.0023 | 1.3 × 10−5 |
2008 | 105.3 ± 1.2a | 92.0 ± 2.5b | 93.5 ± 9.7ab | |||
Unit weight (g FW) | 2007 | 3213 ± 325a | 2755 ± 147b | 2783 ± 225b | 0.00077 | 5.2 × 10−7 |
2008 | 3969 ± 104a | 3614 ± 28b | 3409 ± 152b | |||
DM (%) | 2007 | 9.61 ± 0.38 | 9.42 ± 0.26 | 9.79 ± 0.14 | NS | NS |
2008 | 9.56 ± 0.17 | 9.76 ± 0.39 | 9.73 ± 0.24 | |||
N (%) | 2007 | 1.97 ± 0.06 | 1.97 ± 0.03 | 2.04 ± 0.07 | NS | 3.8 × 10−7 |
2008 | 1.76 ± 0.06 | 1.65 ± 0.11 | 1.62 ± 0.01 | |||
P (%) | 2007 | 0.29 ± 0.02 | 0.28 ± 0.01 | 0.29 ± 0.02 | NS | 0.0031 |
2008 | 0.27 ± 0.01 | 0.26 ± 0.01 | 0.25 ± 0.03 | |||
K (%) | 2007 | 2.60 ± 0.12 | 2.49 ± 0.19 | 2.62 ± 0.17 | NS | 0.0072 |
2008 | 2.35 ± 0.08 | 2.26 ± 0.11 | 2.05 ± 0.49 | |||
S (%) | 2007 | 0.63 ± 0.02 | 0.63 ± 0.03 | 0.60 ± 0.03 | NS | NS |
2008 | 0.62 ± 0.03 | 0.60 ± 0.03 | 0.56 ± 0.04 | |||
Mg (%) | 2007 | 0.12 ± 0.00 | 0.12 ± 0.01 | 0.12 ± 0.01 | NS | 0.00014 |
2008 | 0.11 ± 0.00 | 0.10 ± 0.01 | 0.10 ± 0.00 |
Nutrient concentrations are presented as weight−% (g/100 g DM). Some of these data have partially been presented earlier: Yield data have been published in the supporting material of [21] as averaged over two instead of three field plots and in [18] as averages over 3 years. DM (%), N (%), and S (%) have been presented in [18] as averages over 3 years
NS not significant, FW fresh weight, DM dry matter