EVALUATION OF ELITE HOT PEPPER VARIETIES - IPMS ...

Kechema (5.17) respectively. While the least root dry weight was scored from Dube Medium
at Jimma experimental field (2.47 and at Kechema (3.08), respectively and Oda Haro (3.13) at
Kechema.
The recorded highest dry weight of pepper shoots and roots in this study might be attributed
to vigorous and better plant architecture the varieties recorded, that could increase
photosynthetic reactions of the crop, thereby increase assimilate partitions towards pods. The
increase in pod dry weight in this study conforms with the work of Hedge (1997) who
reported that pod dry matter content of peppers was directly related to the amount of nutrient
taken from the soil, which was proportional to the nutrients present in the soil or the amount
of organic and inorganic fertilizers applied to the soil. Similarly, the work of Guerpinar and
Mordogan (2002) had conformity with this study, which discovered that integration of
farmyard manures with supplemental dose of inorganic fertilizer could give highest pod dry
matter for hot pepper crops.
Table 4. Mean values of shoot and root dry weight as affected by the interaction of location
with variety in 2009/10
Shoot dry weight
(g)
Root dry weight
(g)
Variety Jimma Kechema Jimma Kechema
Mareko Fana 33.89 bc 25.97 efgh 3.43 fgh 3.89 defg
Bako Local 30.57 bcde 20.79 ghij 4.66 cd 3.08 hi
Melka Zala 30.90 bcde 21.90fghi 3.57 efgh 4.19 def
Weldele 56.63 a 32.28 bcd 5.00 ab 5.17 ab
Oda Haro 36.27 19.73 ij 4.63 cd 3.13 ghi
Melka Shote 26.27 efg 26.93 def 4.50 cd 4.25 de
Dobe Medium 36.47 b 31.77 bcde 3.97 def 2.47 h
Dube Short 36.27 b 27.33 def 3.69 efgh 3.88 defg
Gojeb Local 14.71 j 28.02 cde 4.66 cd 6.70 a
LSD (0.05) 5.97 1.87
CV (%) 12.40 11.1
Values in each column sharing same letter are not significantly affected at (α = 0.05)
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