Boosting Chickpea Production by Optimizing Inter-Row and Intrarow Spacing at Central Highlands of Ethiopia

Table 3

P value from the analysis of variance for the effect of site year, variety, and spacing on phenology, growth, yield, and yield components of chickpea, replications, and their interactions with fixed effects considered as random effects.

Source	DF	Mean square
		Maturity (days)	Height (cm)	Branching (branch plant^−1)	Pods plant^−1	Seed weight (g 1000 seeds^−1)	Seed yield plant^−1 (g)	Seeds m^−2 (g)	Grain yield (kg ha^−1)	Biomass yield (kg ha^−1)	Harvest index
Site year	3	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.033	0.0161	0.016	0.0159	0.0004	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.0673
Variety	1	0.0344	0.0004	0.0361	0.0018	0.0019	0.0011	0.0224	0.3155	0.0001	0.1308
Site yearvariety	3	0.3672	0.5775	0.8954	0.0491	0.0597	0.4991	0.1684	0.7356	0.5277	0.6734
Spacing	8	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.0068	0.0068	0.0025	<0.0001	0.01476	<0.0001	0.5843
Site yearspacing	24	0.7209	0.496	0.4862	0.4067	0.0601	0.0409	0.0465	0.1015	0.0378	0.0955
Varietyspacing	8	0.0963	0.5922	0.4467	0.5214	0.0524	0.0404	0.0673	0.0217	0.0243	0.7499
Site yearvarietyspacing	24	0.5016	0.3952	0.0525	0.3821	0.3909	0.3926	0.404	0.4815	0.5314	0.0892
Residual	64