Table 3.
Summary of the analysis of variance (ANOVA) for nitrogen fertilization (N) and genotypic (G) effects (upper part of the table), mean values for GY and yield components within each nitrogen fertilizer level (middle part), and mean genotypic values for GY (lower part).
| Traits | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level of significance (ANOVA) | ||||||
| N | G | N × G | N | G | N × G | |
| GY | 0.008∗∗ | 0.000∗∗∗ | 0.123ns | 0.679ns | 0.000∗∗∗ | 0.933ns |
| TGW | 0.551ns | 0.000∗∗∗ | 0.221ns | 0.198ns | 0.000∗∗∗ | 0.284ns |
| BDW | 0.941ns | 0.056ns | 0.078ns | 0.770ns | 0.735ns | 0.135ns |
| SM | 0.897ns | 0.013∗ | 0.113ns | 0.752ns | 0.000∗∗∗ | 0.892ns |
| GS | 0.048∗ | 0.000∗∗∗ | 0.879ns | 0.827ns | 0.006∗∗ | 0.170ns |
| Significance of the mean ± standard deviation of nitrogen fertilizer levels | ||||||
| N50 | N100 | N130 | N50 | N100 | N130 | |
| GY | 7.41 ± 0.87b | 8.35 ± 0.89a | 8.09 ± 0.98a | 2.39 ± 0.66a | 2.46 ± 0.8a | 2.72 ± 0.73a |
| TGW | 35.21 ± 3.27a | 34.78 ± 2.97a | 34.89 ± 3.2a | 26.97 ± 4.39a | 28.26 ± 4.51a | 29.60 ± 4.08a |
| BDW | 1.25 ± 0.28a | 1.35 ± 0.29a | 1.34 ± 0.3a | 0.56 ± 0.13a | 0.57 ± 0.14a | 0.59 ± 0.15a |
| SM | 458.58 ± 69.99a | 464.47 ± 92.44a | 453.33 ± 74.34a | 291.31 ± 79.78a | 301.36 ± 90.64a | 321.81 ± 78.19a |
| GS | 45.89 ± 7.67a | 43.22 ± 6.48a | 45.28 ± 6.53a | 21.87 ± 6.28a | 23.16 ± 5.64a | 22.31 ± 6.84a |
| Genotype | Significance of genotypes for GY (HSD; mean ± standard deviation) | |||||
| N50 | N100 | N130 | Genotype | General | ||
| Bologna | 6.56 ± 0.41cd | 6.82 ± 0.36c | 6.44 ± 0.51d | Bologna | 2.79 ± 1.02ab | |
| Chambo | 7.13 ± 0.88abcd | 8.44 ± 0.20ab | 9.15 ± 0.50ab | Chambo | 2.89 ± 0.51ab | |
| Soberbio | 7.71 ± 0.80abc | 8.33 ± 0.65ab | 8.30 ± 0.41abc | Soberbio | 3.15 ± 0.65a | |
| Henrik | 7.73 ± 0.29abc | 8.66 ± 0.33ab | 8.79 ± 0.24ab | Henrik | 2.92 ± 0.72ab | |
| Benchmark | 8.09 ± 0.16ab | 8.54 ± 0.50ab | 8.74 ± 0.45ab | Benchmark | 2.00 ± 0.44b | |
| RGT Reform | 8.12 ± 0.61ab | 9.17 ± 0.39ab | 8.76 ± 0.02ab | RGT Reform | 2.28 ± 0.62ab | |
| JB Diego | 8.31 ± 0.33ab | 9.25 ± 0.20ab | 8.37 ± 0.63ab | JB Diego | 2.17 ± 0.66ab | |
| KWS Lilli | 7.03 ± 0.33bcd | 8.41 ± 0.03ab | 8.01 ± 0.26abc | Bennington | 2.33 ± 0.41ab | |
| Hondia | 6.89 ± 0.46bcd | 8.06 ± 0.43bc | 7.46 ± 0.81bcd | Hondia | 1.92 ± 0.59b | |
| Julius | 6.97 ± 0.39bcd | 8.11 ± 0.46b | 7.90 ± 0.54abcd | Julius | 2.18 ± 0.65ab | |
| CH-Nara | 5.89 ± 0.21d | 6.85 ± 0.39c | 6.52 ± 0.18cd | CH-Nara | 2.55 ± 0.57ab | |
| KWS Siskin | 8.48 ± 0.45a | 9.55 ± 0.69a | 9.23 ± 0.49a | KWS Siskin | 2.94 ± 0.67ab | |
GY, grain yield (Mg ha−1); TGW, thousand grain weight; BDW, biomass dry weight; SM, spikes m−2; GS, grains spike−1. *For the 2018/19 season, genotypic means of GY were only calculated for all three fertilizer levels combined because the nitrogen fertilizer treatments had significant effect. Means across nitrogen levels (in the row) and across genotypes (in the column), followed by different letters, are significantly different (p < 0.05) according to the Tukey’s honestly significant difference (HSD) test. Levels of significance for the ANOVA: ns, not significant; ∗p < 0.05; ∗∗p < 0.01; ∗∗∗p < 0.001.