53. Volume 13- Number 1 - IP Australia

DESCRIPTIONS
PLANT VARIETIES JOURNAL 2000 VOL 13 NO. 1
Table 15 Festuca varieties
‘Fraydo’ *‘Bombina’ *‘Demeter’ *‘Flecha’ *‘Melik’ *‘Midwin’ *‘Resolute’
EARLY LEAF COLOUR (1= light green and 3=dark green)
1.83 1.99 2.22 1.96 1.83 1.74 2.15
WINTER GROWTH (1= poor and 5=vigorous)
2.42 2.45 2.79 2.05 2.53 2.53 3.00
VEGETATIVE LEAF LENGTH (cm) - tip to base of leaf
mean 17.70 19.53 19.57 15.43 18.19 19.51 22.86
std deviation 3.316 4.237 3.877 3.622 3.673 4.640 4.998
LSD/sig 1.629 P≤0.01 P≤0.01 P≤0.01 ns P≤0.01 P≤0.01
VEGETATIVE LEAF WIDTH (mm) - widest part of the leaf
mean 7.16 8.22 9.15 6.50 7.23 7.29 8.62
std deviation 1.108 1.291 1.653 1.178 1.370 1.320 1.384
LSD/sig 0.434 P≤0.01 P≤0.01 P≤0.01 ns ns P≤0.01
MEAN HEADING DAY (Day 1 = 01-09-99)
mean 52 66 55 54 50 64 54
std deviation 6.146 7.504 6.940 6.759 6.567 6.666 9.059
LSD/sig 2.793 P≤0.01 ns ns ns P≤0.01 ns
MEAN HEADING RANGE IN DAYS
mean 16 21 19 16 18 19 23
std deviation 4.849 4.690 5.301 6.395 6.912 7.947 6.329
LSD/sig 6.30 ns ns ns ns ns P≤0.01
FLAG LEAF LENGTH (cm) - tip to top of flag leaf
mean 17.10 21.00 19.10 15.70 18.00 18.60 22.50
std deviation 4.038 4.869 4.827 4.268 4.050 6.362 3.943
LSD/sig 2.481 P≤0.01 ns ns ns ns P≤0.01
FLAG LEAF WIDTH (mm) - widest part of the flag leaf
mean 7.27 7.87 9.20 6.69 7.28 7.64 7.22
std deviation 4.038 1.407 2.018 1.205 1.369 1.283 1.779
LSD/sig 0.589 P≤0.01 P≤0.01 ns ns ns ns
STEM LENGTH (cm) - base of the stem to top of spike
mean 118.17 85.55 100.74 106.28 111.30 109.54 100.21
std deviation 11.873 14.475 10.907 16.163 16.271 13.219 14.217
LSD/sig 6.833 P≤0.01 P≤0.01 P≤0.01 ns P≤0.01 P≤0.01
MUMBER OF NODES
mean 2.73 2.56 2.61 2.13 2.49 2.80 2.70
std deviation 0.573 0.548 0.606 0.487 0.528 0.563 0.540
LSD/sig 0.242 ns ns P≤0.01 ns ns ns
SPIKE LENGTH (mm) - base to top of spike
mean 259.0 326.9 307.2 321.1 271.3 345.7 249.8
std deviation 4.073 4.364 4.333 6.418 4.275 6.015 2.841
LSD/sig 24.33 P≤0.01 P≤0.01 P≤0.01 ns P≤0.01 ns
STEM LESS SPIKE LENGTH (cm) - base of the stem to base of spike
mean 92.26 52.87 70.02 73.96 84.17 74.96 75.23
std deviation 10.847 11.571 10.095 13.912 14.488 10.311 13.220
LSD/sig 5.636 P≤0.01 P≤0.01 P≤0.01 P≤0.01 P≤0.01 P≤0.01
SPIKELET LENGTH (mm)
mean 14.76 12.01 13.04 13.64 14.15 11.93 13.60
std deviation 1.708 2.041 1.634 1.808 1.814 1.624 1.773
LSD/sig 0.0761 P≤0.01 P≤0.01 P≤0.01 ns P≤0.01 P≤0.01
GLUME LENGTH (mm)
mean 5.89 5.65 4.99 5.73 6.55 6.41 5.42
std deviation 0.885 0.785 1.020 1.040 1.126 0.869 0.912
LSD/sig 0.606 ns P≤0.01 ns P≤0.01 ns ns
SPRING HABIT (1= erect and 9= prostrate) -25 days after heading
3.96 3.47 6.47 5.52 5.46 3.89 6.45
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