Table 1.
Mean squares for iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), days to 50% flowering and 1000-grain weight of a set of 212 pearl millet core collection accessions evaluated during the 2011 summer and 2011 rainy seasons, Patancheru, India.
| Source of variation | Degrees of freedom | Mean square | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fe | Zn | Days to 50% flowering | 1000-grain weight | ||||||||||
| Pooled | S | R | Pooled | S | R | Pooled | S | R | Pooled | S | R | ||
| Environments (E) | 1 | 5494** | 9105** | 1657** | 173** | ||||||||
| Replication/E | 2 (1) | 239** | 429** | 48* | 144** | 150** | 139** | 54** | 63** | 46** | 19** | 4* | 34** |
| Genotypes (G) | 211 | 550** | 318** | 327** | 262** | 150** | 178** | 129** | 81** | 70** | 19** | 10** | 14** |
| G × E | 211 | 95** | 67** | 23** | 5** | ||||||||
| Residuals | 422 (211) | 13 | 13 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 18 | 7 | 7.2 | 6.6 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| Mean | 54 | 57 | 52 | 49 | 52 | 45 | 56 | 57 | 54 | 9 | 9 | 10 | |
| SE ± | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| LSD (5%) | 5 | 7.2 | 4.9 | 5.6 | 7.5 | 6 | 3.7 | 5.3 | 3.6 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 1.3 | |
| CV (%) | 6.6 | 6.5 | 6.8 | 8.3 | 7.3 | 9.5 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 10.1 | 10.5 | 9.7 | |
| Homogeneity of error variance | NS | – | – | NS | – | – | NS | – | – | NS | – | – | |
Values in the parenthesis are degrees of freedom for individual environments.
S summer, R rainy, NS non-significant.
*,** Significant at the 0.05 and 0.01 probability levels, respectively.