Prevalence and Host Resistance to Common Bean Rust Disease in Western and Central Kenya

Table 3

Effect of cultural practices on incidence and severity of bean rust in the study areas.

Source of variation	^1DF	Incidence	Severity
		^2MS	MS
Cropping system	1	74.8ns	0.958ns
Altitude	2	8887.8	15.835
Cultivar	23	1039.3	3.722
Seed source	2	225.5ns	0.191ns
Previous crop	10	794.2ns	2.923ns
Residue management	3	2017.8	5.026
Fungicide use	1	6300.6	19.364
Management of volunteer plants	2	1251.0	3.623
Crop spacing	19	1193.7	2.030

¹DF: degree of freedom. ²MS: mean square values with , , and implying significance at , , and , respectively; ns: not significant at 0.05 probability level.