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 4

Effect of phosphorous, spacing, and their interaction on numbers of pods.

Treatment	Numbers of pods
	70 DAS	85 DAS	100 DAS
Spacing (cm)
15 × 30	3.84^a	6.11^a	8.25^a
30 × 30	3.82^a	6.04^a	7.98^a
45 × 30	3.46^a	5.71^a	7.80^a
LSD	—	—	—
CV (%); F test	24.16; NS	9.66; NS	8.23; NS
Phosphorus (kg/ha)
20	3.55^a	6.20^a	7.6^b
40	3.68^a	5.71^a	8.31^a
60	3.88^a	5.95^a	8.13^a
LSD	—	—	0.475
CV (%)	21.07	16.26	5.77
F test	NS	NS	0.0176
Interaction	NS	NS	NS
Grand mean	3.71	5.95	8.01

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.