Effect of Spacing and Different Levels of Phosphorus on Growth and Yield of Malepatan-1 Variety of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (Linn.) Walp.) in Dang District, Nepal

Table 3

Effect of phosphorus and spacing on the number of branches per plant.

Treatment	Number of branches per plant
	30 DAS	45 DAS	60 DAS
Spacing (cm)
15 × 30	2.42^a	3.43^a	5.60^b
30 × 30	2.04^b	3.06^b	5.57^b
45 × 30	2.22^b	3.06^b	6.60^a
LSD	0.179	—	—
CV (%); F test	7.85; 0.02525	9.69; NS	14.72; NS
Phosphorus (kg/ha)
20	2.0^a	3.03^a	5.53^b
40	2.26^a	3.094^a	6.40^a
60	2.42^a	3.44^a	5.84^ab
LSD	—	—	—
CV (%)	29.2	20.34	12.1
F test	NS	NS	NS
Interaction	NS	NS	NS
Grand mean	2.22	3.19	5.92

Treatments means followed by the same letter(s) within the column are nonsignificantly different among each other at 5% level of significance. LSD, least significant difference; CV, coefficient of variation; NS, nonsignificant. Source: R Core Team [17]. Significant at the 0.05 level.