Environmental Systems Research

Table 1 Analysis of variance of measured traits of peanut as affected by the main effect of Bradyrhizobium inoculation, location, and cultivar of peanut their two and three ways interaction

From: Development of environmental friendly bioinoculate for peanut (Arachis hypogea L.) production in Eastern Ethiopia

Sources of variation	df	F values
Sources of variation	df	NN	NDW	EffNN (%)	SDW	NSP	TPW	100 seed wt (g)	TBY	GY	Shelling (%)	Tot plant P	Tot plant N
Inoculation (I)	9	3.30**	2.28*	1.15^ns	1.46^ns	2.24*	4.64***	3.04**	2.20*	10.24***	1.70^ns	0.31^ns	0.28
Location (L)	1	57.46***	15.18***	7.15**	14.97***	0.71^ns	16.23***	754.45***	0.32^ns	0.09^ns	4.23*	0.91^ns	7.61**
Cultivar (C)	1	2.28^ns	1.27^ns	0.10^ns	4.57*	201.02***	217.81***	67.91***	354.12***	198.44***	5.53*	2.30^ns	42.24***
L × I	9	8.23***	3.16**	1.83^ns	2.76**	0.70^ns	5.49***	2.18*	1.35^ns	2.87**	3.99***	1.18^ns	1.50
C × I	9	2.02*	2.87**	2.40*	1.40^ns	0.97^ns	3.31**	2.03*	1.52^ns	3.18**	3.71**	0.40^ns	0.83
L × C	1	20.18***	1.89^ns	1.19^ns	11.28**	2.18^ns	44.74***	274.37***	88.19***	0.02^ns	19.92***	0.00^ns	3.77
L × C × I	9	3.49**	4.03***	2.07*	1.36^ns	0.38^ns	1.77^ns	2.16*	3.03**	3.99***	1.54^ns	0.62^ns	2.24*

ns non significant, NN nodule number per plant, NDW nodule dry weight (g plant⁻¹), EffNN (%) effective nodule number percentage, SDW shoot dry weight (g plant⁻¹), NSP number of seeds per peg; TPW total pegs weight (kg ha⁻¹), TBY total biomass yield (kg ha⁻¹), GY grain yield (kg ha⁻¹)
* Significant at 0.05; ** significant at 0.01; *** significant at 0.001

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