Table 3.

The effect of locality, plant origin (natural, synthetic) and ploidy level on plant flowering (yes/no), fruiting of flowering plants (yes/no), proportion of developed seeds, number of seeds per pod, number of pods per plant, mean flowering time and flowering duration

		Flowering		Fruiting when flowering		Proportion of developed seeds		Seeds per pod		Pods		Mean flowering time		Flowering duration
	d.f.	Deviance	P	Deviance	P	Deviance	P	Deviance	P	Deviance	P	F	P	F	P
Locality	3	20·76	<0·001	14·72	0·002	401·1	<0·001	5938	<0·001	1872	<0·001	779·70	0·010	6758	<0·001
Plant origin	1	3·17	0·075	14·88	<0·001	903·0	<0·001	4008	<0·001	2505	<0·001	1·90	0·866	867	0·087
Ploidy level	1	22·39	<0·001	19·85	<0·001	55·2	<0·001	3935	<0·001	2915	<0·001	723·90	0·001	1705	0·017
Locality × origin	3	8·67	0·034	6·80	0·078	120·9	<0·001	900	<0·001	232	<0·001	1125·70	0·001	166	0·904
Locality × ploidy	3	1·17	0·761	7·88	0·048	32·0	<0·001	73	<0·001	42	<0·001	591·00	0·035	820	0·427
Origin × ploidy	1	0·00	0·947	2·59	0·107	35·8	<0·001	216	<0·001	348	<0·001	0·20	0·957	117	0·528
Locality × origin × ploidy	3	9·00	0·029	1·76	0·625	27·5	<0·001	234	<0·001	48	<0·001	1177·60	<0·001	1192	0·257
Residual d.f.		350		297		246		297		297		297		297

Significant values (P ≤ 0·05) are in bold.