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 6

Interaction effect of planting time (PT) and nitrogen (N) rate on total phenolic content (TPC) and total carotenoid content (TCC).

PT	N rate	TPC	TCC	Moisture
	(kg ha^1)	(mg GAE g^−1 DW)	(μg g^−1 DW)	(%)
Early	Control	7.65 a	1134 j	94.8
Early	Low	7.19 ab	1446 f-i	95.4
Early	Medium	7.12 abc	1300 hij	95.1
Early	High	7.52 ab	1284 ij	95.2
Mid	Control	6.73 bc	1543 zd-i	96.2
Mid	Low	6.33 c-f	1529 ze-i	95.2
Mid	Medium	7.07 ab	1804 abz	95.5
Mid	High	5.90 d-g	1547 z c-i	95.7
Late	Control	5.51 efg	1427 g-j	93.6
Late	Low	5.41 fgh	1459 z f-j	93.9
Late	Medium	5.05 gh	1556 z b-j	94.3
Late	High	4.88 h	1767 a c-f	94.1

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