Table 2. Mean values of morphological characteristics of five teosinte populations.
| Populations | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | 824 | 2021 | 2335 | 2484 | Standard Deviation | |
| Number of evaluated individuals per population | σ | |||||
| Morphological characteristics | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | |
| Male flowering (days) | 149 | 129 | 171 | 158 | 133 | 15.6 |
| Female flowering (days) | 173 | 161 | 181 | 175 | 157 | 9.0 |
| Total number of leaves | 16.3 | 18.2 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 14.1 | 1.6 |
| Flag leaf length (cm) | 27.0 | 54.0 | 37.2 | 29.2 | 38.7 | 9.5 |
| Flag leaf width (cm) | 3.1 | 6.0 | 5.3 | 3.9 | 5.3 | 1.1 |
| Number of tillers | 4.8 | 2.4 | 4.9 | 5.6 | 8.5 | 2.0 |
| Number of side branches | 3.6 | 4.2 | 4.7 | 3.2 | 4.5 | 0.6 |
| Plant height (m) | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 0.1 |
| Lower ear height (m) | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 0.1 |
| Upper ear height (m) | 2.0 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 0.2 |
| Upper ear length (cm) | 14.3 | 9.2 | 12.2 | 13.4 | 12.7 | 1.7 |
| Number of tassel branches | 14.0 | 10.3 | 10.7 | 11.0 | 12.4 | 1.4 |
| Tassel length (cm) | 20.0 | 28.9 | 21.7 | 20.8 | 23.1 | 3.2 |
| Length of main tassel branch (cm) | 11.9 | 19.6 | 13.7 | 15.2 | 14.1 | 2.6 |
| Glume length (mm) | 9.6 | 11.4 | 9.8 | 9.2 | 9.3 | 0.8 |
| Glume width (mm) | 2.7 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 0.1 |
| Number of glume ribs | 8.7 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 9.7 | 11.3 | 0.9 |
| Thousand-seed weight (g) | 77.1 | 88.8 | 81.2 | 68.2 | 86.4 | 7.3 |