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

Table 2

Interactive effect of years and rice genotypes on growth characters.

Year × genotype		Days to 50% heading	Plant height (cm)	Total tillers (no. m^−2)	Shoot biomass (t ha^−1)
2017	IR58	61jk	61.3k	265.8cdef	5.2ab
	IR60	73c	66.4jk	296.4bc	5.1abc
	IRI176	63hij	86.6cde	203.1ghijk	4.4bcde
	IRRI148	70defg	80.7efgh	159.3kl	3.9defg
	N1	59kl	79.1fghi	145.4lm	3.1fghi
	N4	61jk	88.6bcd	101.8mn	2.4hij
	N7	61jk	93.3bc	88.7n	2.8hi
	NSIC 2013 RC346	68g	80.2efgh	209.8ghij	5.2ab
	NSIC RC216	78ab	77.9ghi	214.8ghi	4.5bcd
	NSIS RC298	77b	73.2ij	220.3ghi	4.8abcd
	PSBRC10	62ij	65.0k	188.7hijkl	4.4bcde
	PSBRC82	69fg	76.5ghi	177.0ijkl	5.7a
2018	IR58	58l	65.5k	362.7a	3.0ghi
	IR60	72cd	75.8hi	339.7ab	3.0ghi
	IRI176	65h	103.0a	221.4fghi	2.7hi
	IRRI148	71cde	93.1bc	159.8jkl	2.5hij
	N1	60kl	85.7def	91.0n	1.7j
	N4	62ij	94.7b	84.9n	2.0ij
	N7	63hij	106.8a	82.7n	2.9ghi
	NSIC 2013 RC346	70defg	79.5fghi	272.0cde	2.6hij
	NSIC RC216	80a	83.0defg	229.2efgh	4.1cdef
	NSIS RC298	79ab	77.0ghi	239.2defg	3.4efgh
	PSBRC10	64hi	76.2ghi	275.3cd	2.3ij
	PSBRC82	70defg	82.7defg	235.9defgh	2.6hij

Means followed by the same letters within the column are not significantly different by the LSD test at the 5% probability level.