Table 2.

The mean, range, standard deviation (SD), coefficient of variation (CV) and F-value of plant height (H), tiller number (TN), fresh biomass yield each plant (FW), dry biomass yield each plant (DW), the main tiller diameter (TD), the number of main stem internodes (NI), the length of main internode (LI), the length of flag leaf (LF), the width of flag leaf (WF), the length of longest leaf (LL), and the width of longest leaf (WL) in Miscanthus sinensis population in 2011, 2012, and 2013.

Trait	Year	Mean	Range	SD	CV (%)	F
H (cm)	2011	203.67	125.31–330.58	41.46	21.98	4.24***
	2012	205.18	120.63–307.14	37.58	18.45
	2013	188.61	111.00–313.62	30.95	15.08
TN	2011	29.30	4–73	15.18	51.81	6.61***
	2012	38.21	5–138	25.94	67.87
	2013	43.38	9–92	19.04	43.88
FW (g)	2011	498.7	50–1350	250.98	50.32	6.08***
	2012	770.8	85–2045	444.64	57.69
	2013	1001.9	200–2225	474.35	47.35
DW (g)	2012	363.8	55–1170	220.49	60.61	8.923***
	2013	399.0	105–875	180.47	45.23
TD (cm)	2012	0.535	0.277–0.859	0.10	19.62	9.346***
	2013	0.579	0.193–0841	0.12	20.67
NI	2012	10.50	6–16	2.30	21.93	3.952***
	2013	12.34	7–17	2.22	17.95
LI (cm)	2012	9.07	4.32–15.68	2.33	25.74	3.785***
	2013	10.97	5.49–20.63	2.47	22.52
LF(cm)	2012	32.13	7.03–77.53	14.07	43.80	9.626***
	2013	35.10	11.33–70.33	11.89	33.88
WF (cm)	2012	0.87	0.33–1.87	0.30	34.46	6.009***
	2013	0.97	0.52–2.43	0.37	38.07
LL (cm)	2012	77.63	35.21–121.78	14.89	19.19	6.756***
	2013	82.36	53.97–119.78	12.47	15.14
WL (cm)	2012	1.59	0.72–2.47	0.36	22.40	12.213***
	2013	1.83	1.10–3.12	0.41	22.53

^***Significant differences at P < 0.001.