Table 4.
Phenotypic variability of hairy vetch (HV) for each improvement status and origin (means and range) grown in a common garden during 2014 and 2016 in Experimental Agricultural Station (EEA) Hilario Ascasubi.
| Improvement status | Origin | n | Relative biomass† | Leaf length | Leaflet number | Flower number | Days to | Physical dormancy | Seed | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter | Spring | Flowering | Maturity | Viability | Weight | |||||||
| (mm) | (n) | AUC | (%) | (mg) | ||||||||
| Cultivar | EU | 24 | ||||||||||
| Mean | 0.69B | 0.94B | 57 | 15.3B | 26B | 195AB | 245AB | 0.72D | 97A | 33B | ||
| Range | (0.10–1.84) | (0.35–1.59) | (35–83) | (12–19) | (10–40) | (145–203) | (204–255) | (0.15–0.99) | (84–100) | (21–42) | ||
| Within status (p < 0.05) | ** | ** | ** | * | ** | ** | ** | ** | ** | ** | ||
| Cultivar | ARG | 12 | ||||||||||
| Mean | 1.47D | 0.99BC | 59 | 14.7A | 23A | 197BC | 248B | 0.48C | 98AB | 32B | ||
| Range | (0.72–2.39) | (0.37–1.63) | (22–81) | (10–19) | (13–28) | (169–202) | (221–255) | (0.11–0.88) | (88–100) | (27–41) | ||
| Within status (p < 0.05) | NS | ** | ** | * | NS | ** | ** | ** | * | ** | ||
| Naturalized | ARG | 30 | ||||||||||
| Mean | 1.27C | 1.06C | 58 | 15.2B | 25B | 193A | 241A | 0.39B | 99B | 31B | ||
| Range | (0.26–2.35) | (0.48–1.89) | (32–99) | (13–19) | (18–32) | (178–202) | (221–260) | (0.08–0.66) | (88–100) | (22–40) | ||
| Within status (p < 0.05) | ** | ** | ** | ** | NS | ** | ** | ** | * | ** | ||
| Wild | EU | 5 | ||||||||||
| Mean | 0.20A | 0.77A | 51 | 17.2C | 21A | 200C | 246AB | 0.13A | 96A | 15A | ||
| Range | (0.01–0.59) | (0.23–1.07) | (37–77) | (15–20) | (15–33) | (188–213) | (233–255) | (0.00–0.23) | (76–100) | (10–21) | ||
| Within status (p < 0.05) | * | ** | * | ** | NS | ** | NS | NS | ** | * | ||
| Between status (p < 0.05) | ** | ** | NS | ** | ** | * | ** | ** | ** | ** | ||
| LSD | 0.15 | 0.08 | 0.5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0.06 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Status * Year | NS | NS | ** | NS | NS | ** | NS | NS | NS | |||
For mean values, different letters indicate significant differences among status (Fisher’s LSD test, α = 0.05).
‘**’Indicates significance at p < 0.01 and ‘*’ at p < 0.05.
†Relative to mean biomass per year (winter 222 and 168 g m−1 and spring 1,174 and 887 g m−1 in 2014 and 2016, respectively).
NS, not significant.