Table 2.

Mean values and phenotypic variation for SY and SYRTs of KN population evaluated in different micro-environments.

SY(g)a		08DLc	09DL	10DL	10GS	11DL	11GS	12DL	12GS
KenC-8	Meanb	20.08 ± 1.82	24.65 ± 4.81	24.25 ± 6.80	24.68 ± 1.22	16.22 ± 0.91	22.37 ± 1.73	18.77 ± 2.03	23.23 ± 3.63
N53-2	Mean	27.00 ± 4.59	24.23 ± 4.91	25.09 ± 4.41		25.29 ± 2.86		29.18 ± 3.50
DH	Mean	19.48 ± 5.38	22.29 ± 5.13	22.87 ± 5.74	18.47 ± 5.59	18.76 ± 5.46	16.91 ± 5.15	23.83 ± 5.45	14.36 ± 4.25
Range	Min-Max	2.24–34.91	5.96–35.07	4.3–38.82	8.1–35.1	2.45–34.81	6.43–33.74	6.04–40.83	4.12–26.37
BY(g)		08DL	09DL	10DL	10GS	11DL	11GS	12DL	12GS
KenC-8	Mean	58.27 ± 4.49	74.49 ± 20.09	70.69 ± 18.56	106.63 ± 14.95	59.99 ± 5.31	91.66 ± 15.33	39.49 ± 5.11	57.09 ± 1.60
N53-2	Mean	86.74 ± 13.92	71.04 ± 14.84	76.92 ± 12.52		71.37 ± 6.75		45.81 ± 8.43
DH	Mean	62.68 ± 17.14	46.44 ± 9.83	71.08 ± 16.04	84.49 ± 19.28	59.52 ± 14.78	53.03 ± 11.56	45.61 ± 9.62	48.08 ± 13.54
Range	Min–Max	9.7–107.1	17.1–74.0	16.4–108.2	41.8–135.7	12.9–97.9	27.9–95.0	14.0–116.6	14.0–116.6
SW(g)		08DL	09DL	10DL	10GS	11DL	11GS	12DL	12GS
KenC-8	Mean	3.53 ± 0.31	3.72 ± 0.31	3.34 ± 0.43	3.29 ± 0.01	2.70 ± 0.50	3.15 ± 0.54	3.00 ± 0.49	3.15 ± 0.54
N53-2	Mean	3.93 ± 0.10	4.02 ± 0.29	3.47 ± 0.47		2.88 ± 0.23		3.33 ± 0.12
DH	Mean	3.43 ± 0.55	3.76 ± 0.47	3.31 ± 0.51	3.15 ± 0.52	2.81 ± 0.52	3.45 ± 0.56	3.3 ± 0.46	2.92 ± 0.72
Range	Min–Max	1.48–4.83	2.47–4.92	1.91–5.71	1.73–5.20	1.57–5.78	2.00–5.93	2.24–5.64	1.11–5.24
PH(cm)		08DL	09DL	10DL	10GS	11DL	11GS	12DL	12GS
KenC-8	Mean	120.00 ± 10.00	144.00 ± 6.56	145.67 ± 6.03	172.45 ± 7.84	151.67 ± 11.59	191.00 ± 1.41	135.67 ± 9.07	208.50 ± 6.36
N53-2	Mean	145.00 ± 13.23	156.33 ± 13.43	166.00 ± 5.57	176.87 ± 10.78	165.33 ± 11.93	181.50 ± 27.58	156.67 ± 11.06	228.00 ± 7.07
DH	Mean	128.29 ± 16.64	148.66 ± 16.97	143.28 ± 18.49	185.18 ± 24.86	152.52 ± 19.36	189.31 ± 30.44	132.87 ± 17.64	196.95 ± 25.03
Range	Min–Max	83.3–163.3	90.0–175.7	94.3–182.0	108.0–249.1	94.7–193.0	132.0–296.5	87.3–170.3	103.0–261.2
BH(cm)		08DL	09DL	10DL	11DL	11GS	12DL	12GS
KenC-8	Mean	27.04 ± 2.25	47.47 ± 5.01	36.20 ± 10.11	53.60 ± 4.13	95.50 ± 10.89	33.87 ± 6.62	101.45 ± 3.54
N53-2	Mean	39.00 ± 7.21	58.13 ± 5.67	54.87 ± 7.51	54.20 ± 5.64	122.60 ± 3.96	43.27 ± 6.20	184.74 ± 9.85
DH	Mean	26.82 ± 6.98	43.02 ± 8.74	39.65 ± 10.85	54.57 ± 8.36	101.31 ± 24.09	33.07 ± 7.67	113.43 ± 27.64
Range	Min–Max	4.3–52.1	3.6–66.3	3.5–65.1	14.3–74.9	47.7–180.8	2.9–51.4	49.0–187.8
FBN		08DL	09DL	10DL	11DL	11GS	12DL	12GS
KenC-8	Mean	13.4 ± 1.6	17.9 ± 1.7	14.7 ± 1.7	16.9 ± 0.6	8.3 ± 1.5	13.6 ± 1.4	10.5 ± 1.2
N53-2	Mean	11.9 ± 0.9	10.4 ± 1.6	9.5 ± 0.8	8.7 ± 0.8	6.3 ± 0.7	9.4 ± 2.3	6.4 ± 1.1
DH	Mean	14.3 ± 4.42	11.1 ± 1.73	11.3 ± 2.30	115.0 ± 2.23	7.8 ± 1.57	10.1 ± 1.58	7.2 ± 1.72
Range	Min–Max	6.3–25.5	5.4–19.2	5.5–22.9	5.2–20.6	3.4–13.4	4.5–15.3	2.8–14.5
LMI(cm)		09DL	10DL	11DL	12DL
KenC-8	Mean	46.13 ± 2.62	51.94 ± 2.32	42.62 ± 5.63	50.92 ± 3.32
N53-2	Mean	60.92 ± 5.38	65.97 ± 1.72	67.94 ± 3.45	69.54 ± 3.78
DH	Mean	58.09 ± 6.99	55.75 ± 6.87	53.64 ± 8.02	55.27 ± 9.69
Range	Min-Max	35.0–79.5	34.1–78.1	32.1–74.7	33.8–79.7
PMI		09DL	10DL	11DL	12DL
KenC-8	Mean	55.2 ± 1.8	57.2 ± 2.9	59.0 ± 3.7	49.7 ± 7.2
N53-2	Mean	62.5 ± 4.8	66.6 ± 1.2	73.7 ± 3.0	61.7 ± 5.4
DH	Mean	59.7 ± 8.1	57.4 ± 7.7	63.2 ± 9.1	55.4 ± 8.5
Range	Min–Max	36.5–88.3	23.7–80.5	23.9–93.2	30.4–77.6

^aSeed yield and related traits in different microenvironments.

^bMean value ± SD.

^cMicro-environments.

“KenC-8” represents male parent, “N53-2” represents female parent.

SY, seed yield; BY, biomass yield; SW, thousand seed weight; PH, plant height; BH, first effective branch height; FBN, first effective branch number; LMI, length of main inflorescence; PMI, pod number of main inflorescence.