Agriculture & Food Security

Table 2 Number of leaves per plant and leaf to stem ratio for oats varieties at different harvesting stages

From: Evaluation of biomass yield and nutritional quality of oats–vetch mixtures at different harvesting stage under residual moisture in Fogera District, Ethiopia

Parameters	Oats varieties	Harvesting stages
Parameters	Oats varieties	HS₁	HS₂	HS₃	Mean
Number of leaves per tiller	Oats CI-8237	4.67^b	5.43^a	5.53^a	5.21^a
	Oats CI-8251	4.1^c	4.4^bc	4.53^b	4.34^b
	Mean	4.38^b	4.92^a	5.03^a	4.78
	SE	0.167
	CV	3.495
	P value (varieties)	0.0001
Leaf to stem ratio	Oats CI-8237	1.07^a	0.94^c	0.73^e	0.91^a
	Oats CI-8251	0.99^b	0.89^d	0.71^e	0.87^b
	Mean	1.03^a	0.92^b	0.72^c	0.89
	SE	0.018
	CV	2.075
	P value (varieties)	0.0004

SE standard error, CV coefficient of variation, HS harvesting stage
^a–eVariety means values having same superscript within a row are not significantly different (P > 0.05)

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