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. 2018 Jul 2;8:9964. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-28020-w

Table 1.

Effects of CO2, O3, plant developmental stage, and their interactions on alfalfa growth traits. F and P values from MANOVAs are shown.

Plant growth traits CO2 O3 Developmental stage CO2 × O3 CO2 × developmental stage O3 × developmental stage CO2 × O3 × developmental stage
F P F P F P F P F P F P F P
Photosynthetic rate 12.416 0.001 122.083 <0.001 807.924 <0.001 17.667 <0.001 34.458 <0.001 85.638 <0.001 3.216 0.076
Chlorophyll content 0.070 0.792 19.599 <0.001 25.991 <0.001 1.801 0.182 2.446 0.120 2.658 0.105 0.121 0.728
Plant height 0.913 0.341 1.006 0.317 218.391 <0.001 11.098 0.001 0.002 0.966 2.680 0.104 0.003 0.958
Aboveground biomass 0.001 0.975 50.332 <0.001 1477.290 <0.001 3.541 0.062 0.418 0.519 18.135 <0.001 1.124 0.291
Belowground biomass 8.674 0.004 7.223 0.008 296.733 <0.001 0.664 0.417 7.778 0.006 3.179 0.077 0.358 0.551
Flowering time 2.301 0.180 4.279 0.084 8.387 0.027
Podding time 0.521 0.497 0.646 0.452 1.819 0.226
Number of flowers per plant 4.126 0.045 50.080 <0.001 1.893 0.172
Number of pods per plant 4.109 0.047 168.686 <0.001 13.533 <0.001

P values < 0.05 are bolded.