Research Article

Effects of Irrigation and Planting Geometry on Soybean (Glycine max L.) Seed Nutrition in Humid Climates

Table 5

Effect of irrigation treatments (FI, HI, and RF) and PG (SR and TR planting) on soybean seed: sugars (sucrose, raffinose, and stachyose).

TreatmentPGSucroseRaffinoseStachyose
201820192018201920182019

FISR3.9c4.6b0.780.763.63.7
TR4.4b4.8b0.740.773.93.6

HISR3.9c4.4c0.720.773.93.2
TR4.5a4.5a0.750.803.93.5

RFSR4.4b4.8b0.730.763.73.5
TR4.5a4.9a0.750.743.93.6

PG: planting geometry, FI: full irrigation, HI: half irrigation, and RF: rainfed. Means in each column followed by the same letter or letters are not statistically different by LSD means ( ≤ 0.05).