Plant Growth and Nutritional Quality Attributes of Basella alba Applied with Variable Rates of Nitrogen Fertilizer at Different Planting Dates under Canadian Maritime Climatic Conditions

Table 5

Interaction effect of planting time (PT) and nitrogen (N) rate on leaf dry matter content (LDMC) and total yield.

PT	N rate	LDMC (mg g^−1)	Total yield (g plant^1)
Early	Control	52.9 c-i	111.3 g
Early	Low	46.1 g-j	210.4 def
Early	Medium	49.4 d-j	185.2 ef
Early	High	48.1 f-j	181.6 f
Mid	Control	38.3 j	472.3 ab
Mid	Low	49.0 e-i	436.3 abc
Mid	Medium	45.7 hi	512.1 a
Mid	High	43.2 ij	435.9 abc
Late	Control	63.1 a	341.7 a-d
Late	Low	60.3 a-g	277.4 c-f
Late	Medium	56.2 b-i	381.8 ab
Late	High	58.2 a-h	311.2 b-f

Means sharing the same alphabetical letters within the same column are not significantly different at the 5% level; c-i represents cdefghi.