Table 3.
Yield and nutritional composition of pearl millet genotypes mixed or not with cowpea harvested at boot or heading maturity stages (Trial 2).
| Treatments 1 | p-Value 2 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item | Maturity | CON | CON + CWP | BMR | BMR + CWP | SEM | Gen | CWP | Maturity | Gen × CWP |
| DM yield, kg/ha | Boot | 8218 | 7008 | 7571 | 7233 | 489 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.24 | 0.86 |
| Heading | 8616 | 8367 | 7799 | 6926 | ||||||
| DM, % | Boot | 27.8 | 27.7 | 29.3 | 27.5 | 0.97 | 0.65 | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.72 |
| Heading | 30.6 | 28.9 | 29.1 | 28.4 | ||||||
| Ash, % DM | Boot | 13.7 | 13.6 | 13.6 | 13.6 | 0.61 | 0.98 | 0.67 | <0.01 | 0.55 |
| Heading | 14.9 | 14.9 | 14.6 | 15.3 | ||||||
| CP, % DM | Boot | 14.8 | 14.7 | 14.5 | 15.8 | 0.60 | 0.19 | 0.02 | 0.35 | 0.89 |
| Heading | 13.2 | 15.2 | 14.4 | 15.4 | ||||||
| aNDFom % DM | Boot | 54.9 | 54.2 | 53.5 | 53.1 | 1.06 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.34 | 0.34 |
| Heading | 55.0 | 53.6 | 54.4 | 50.0 | ||||||
| ADFom, % DM | Boot | 36.5 | 36.9 | 34.2 | 34.5 | 0.90 | 0.01 | 0.38 | 0.49 | 0.94 |
| Heading | 37.5 | 35.9 | 36.0 | 34.7 | ||||||
| ADL, %DM | Boot | 4.84 | 4.80 | 4.14 | 4.18 | 0.32 | 0.05 | 0.70 | 0.34 | 0.25 |
| Heading | 4.92 | 4.64 | 4.30 | 4.90 | ||||||
| ADL, % aNDFom | Boot | 8.89 | 9.28 | 7.76 | 7.90 | 0.62 | 0.18 | 0.14 | 0.21 | 0.22 |
| Heading | 8.98 | 8.80 | 8.02 | 0.10 | ||||||
| WSC, %DM | Boot | 8.10 | 8.66 | 8.87 | 8.60 | 0.42 | 0.60 | 0.69 | 0.51 | 0.58 |
| Heading | 8.95 | 7.87 | 8.17 | 8.52 | ||||||
1 CON = conventional pearl millet; CON + CWP = conventional pearl millet + cowpea, BMR = BMR pearl millet; BMR + CWP = BMR pearl millet + cowpea. 2 Gen = effect of genotype; CWP = effect of cowpea; Maturity = effect of maturity stage (boot or heading) at harvest.