Research Article

Growth and Productivity Assessment of Short-Duration Rice (Oryza sativa L. and Upland NERICA) Genotypes in Semiarid North-Central Namibia

Table 1

Summary of analysis of variance for growth, yield components, and yield of rice as influenced by experimental year, genotype, and their interaction.

Treatment structureDFDays to heading (no.)Plant height (cm)Total tillers (no. m−2)Shoot biomass (t·ha−1)Total panicles (no. m−2)1000-grain weight (g)Grain yield (t·ha−1)Harvest index

Replication30.53811.880.394724.31224.62.1720.0048750.534
Year (Y)115.844149258.110417339.588354.511.652#0.23173210.112#
Error (Ey)34.39915.441.09773727.93653.71.3220.0046651.0173
Genotype (G)11372.2913.74.179746479.832097.5102.2150.005744.2795
Y × G114.75346.72#1.82853924.76525.67.1240.0187621.9099
Error (EYG)662.18124.120.535997.7941.21.9760.0021150.3353

∗∗∗, ∗∗, , and # refer significant difference at , , , and .