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Table 1

Table 1. Early and mid-season agronomic characteristics of varieties at Muleshoe, TX, 2002.
	Early season 6-24-02							Mid-season 7-1-02
	Stand count	Stand count	Plant height	Node of 1st sympodium	Mainstem nodes	Height to node	First position fruit retention	Plant height	Mainstem nodes	Height to node	First position fruit retention
Variety	plants/row-ft	plants/acre	inches	average	total/plant	ratio	%	inches	total/plant	ratio	%
NK 2108SS	3.9	67721	6.5	4.8	8.4	0.80	87.8	9.5	10.0	0.93	78.6
SG 215BG/RR	3.8	66327	6.5	5.8	8.4	0.77	72.8	10.0	10.1	1.00	74.8
NK 2165C	3.4	59706	6.0	5.1	7.9	0.77	74.5	9.3	10.1	0.93	75.5
FM 819	3.8	65398	6.5	6.7	8.7	0.77	87.9	9.5	10.0	0.97	75.0
FM 958	3.1	53666	5.7	7.1	8.9	0.63	81.5	8.7	11.0	0.80	78.4
FM BXN 5024	4.1	71322	7.2	5.1	8.3	0.87	80.8	8.2	9.6	0.87	64.4
PM 2167RR	4.1	71322	6.8	5.3	8.2	0.83	91.6	9.2	10.4	0.90	78.5
PM 2266RR	3.8	66560	7.2	5.2	8.6	0.87	86.5	9.0	10.1	0.87	81.2
PM 2326RR	4.2	73762	6.8	4.5	7.7	0.90	78.5	9.5	9.1	1.07	80.9
PM 2344BG/RR	4.0	70509	7.0	5.1	8.0	0.87	82.2	9.8	10.0	1.00	81.3
ST 2454R	3.3	57732	6.3	5.1	8.0	0.80	83.3	9.3	9.8	0.97	85.4
ST 3539BR	3.2	55757	7.2	5.7	9.0	0.80	77.1	9.5	10.0	0.93	78.1
ST BXN 16	3.2	56338	7.7	5.1	8.1	0.90	88.5	9.0	10.1	0.90	73.9
Average	3.7	64317	6.7	5.4	8.3	0.8	82.5	9.3	10.0	0.9	77.4
CV, %	5.8	5.9	12.0	7.4	5.3	12.97	10.6	8.9	5.4	9.90	6.1
OSL	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.2516	<0.0001	0.0352	0.2209	0.2845	0.4614	0.0787	0.1323	0.0047
LSD 0.05	0.4	6443	NS	0.7	0.7	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	7.9
CV – coefficient of variation, LSD – least significant difference. OSL – observed significance level, or probability of a greater F value. NS – non significant.