Evaluating the Effect of Cultivars and Seeding Rates on the Yield of Lentil Grown under the Vertisols Production System

Table 5

Main effects of environment, variety, and seed rate on grain yield (t/ha) and some agronomic parameters of lentil combined over 5 environments in 2017 and 2018.

Treatment	DTF	DTM	Plh (cm)	NPPP	NSPP	HSW (g)	Gy (t/ha)
Environment
Burtilik site in 2017	53.9^c	105.0^cd	30.2^a	47.7^b	1.5^a	3.12	1.48^b
Deneba site in 2017	54.2^c	104.7^d	31.0^a	47.9^b	1.3^b	3.19	1.77^a
Farmer field in 2017	54.5^c	105.6^c	31.0^a	54.8^a	1.5^a	3.21	1.48^b
Burtilik site in 2018	58.2^a	108.4^a	23.3^c	26.1^d	1.1^c	3.14	0.69^c
Deneba site in 2018	56.7^b	107.6^b	26.9^b	35.4^c	1.4^ab	3.07	0.78^c
LSD (5%)	0.508	0.70	1.08	3.33	0.12	ns	0.104
Variety
Derash	57.1	112.2	31.2	47.0	1.3	3.42	1.29
Local cultivar	53.9	100.6	25.8	37.7	1.4	2.88	1.20
LSD (5%)	0.321	0.40	0.68	2.11	ns	0.066	0.066
Seed rate (kg/ha)
40	56.4^a	107.2^a	27.6	58.2^a	1.3^ab	3.15	1.07^c
60	56.0^a	107.0^a	27.9	48.3^b	1.2^b	3.21	1.19^b
80	55.6^ab	107.1^a	28.6	42.7^c	1.3^b	3.09	1.23^b
100	55.1^b	105.7^b	28.8	38.4^d	1.5^a	3.14	1.30^ab
120	55.0^b	105.5^b	29.1	35.2^d	1.3^ab	3.17	1.30^ab
140	54.8^b	105.2^b	28.8	31.4^e	1.3^ab	3.12	1.37^a
LSD (5%)	0.556	0.80	ns	3.65	0.13	ns	0.114
Mean	55.5	106.3	28.5	42.4	1.3	3.15	1.24
CV (%)	2.00	1.40	8.13	16.80	18.70	7.10	17.90

DTF, days to flower; DTM, days to mature; NPPP, number of pods per plant; NSPP, number of seeds per pod; Plh, plant height; HSW, hundred seed weight; Gy, grain yield.