Table 5

Table 5.  Early and mid-season agronomic characteristics of varieties at Cone, TX, 2002.
Early season 6-25-02 Mid-season 7-2-02
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 %
SG215BG/RR 4.0 51923 6.5 6.1 8.9 0.70 85.6 9.0 10.4 0.87 81.9
NK 2165C 3.7 48090 7.2 5.5 9.4 0.77 59.5 9.3 11.1 0.83 78.3
All-Tex Atlas RR 4.1 53317 6.5 5.1 8.8 0.77 86.7 9.7 10.0 1.00 81.9
FM 958 3.9 51314 6.2 7.7 10.2 0.63 96.7 8.7 10.9 0.80 90.1
FM 966 3.3 43038 6.3 7.2 10.0 0.63 94.0 8.8 11.2 0.80 86.0
FM 989RR 4.5 58545 7.3 7.5 10.0 0.73 88.6 8.8 11.5 0.77 73.6
PM 2266RR 3.5 46087 6.5 5.3 8.8 0.73 86.1 8.7 10.4 0.87 81.6
PM 2280BG/RR 4.2 55582 6.5 6.0 9.4 0.70 80.5 8.8 11.1 0.77 82.5
PM 2326RR 4.4 58109 6.7 5.0 8.5 0.80 84.5 10.0 10.1 1.00 81.8
PM 2344BG/RR 3.8 49833 6.8 5.7 9.4 0.73 88.0 8.5 10.9 0.80 85.2
PM HS26 4.5 58370 6.5 5.3 8.5 0.77 85.9 8.3 10.5 0.77 87.2
Raider 271 3.9 51314 7.2 6.1 9.9 0.73 82.5 10.3 11.9 0.90 84.9
ST 2454R 2.9 37636 6.2 5.6 9.1 0.67 87.8 8.5 10.4 0.83 89.0
Average 3.9 51012 6.6 6.0 9.3 0.7 85.1 9.0 10.8 0.8 83.4
CV, % 6.6 6.6 7.6 4.4 4.1 9.10 7.3 7.8 4.2 9.90 6.5
OSL <0.0001 <0.0001 0.1325 <0.0001 <0.0001 0.0908 <0.0001 0.0412 0.0009 0.0180 0.0678
LSD 0.05 0.4 5702 NS 0.4 0.6 NS 10.4 1.2 0.8 0.14 9.1
CV – coefficient of variation, LSD – least significant difference.
OSL – observed significance level, or probability of a greater F value.
NS – non significant.

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