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Table 3 Effect of cotton cultivar on cotton biomass accumulation and biomass partitioning in 2014 and 2015

From: Genotypic variation in spatiotemporal distribution of canopy light interception in relation to yield formation in cotton

Cultivar

Total biomass

Vegetative biomass

Reproductive biomass

Harvest index

 /(kg·hm−2)

 /(kg·hm−2)

 /(kg·hm−2)

 /%

2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

J958

13 936

a§

13 489

a

7 800

a

7 333

A

6 137

b

6 155

cd

44.0

d

45.6

c

J228

13 429

ab

13 366

a

6 544

b

6 710

B

6 885

a

6 656

ab

51.3

b

49.8

b

C113

13 097

bc

12 606

bc

6 222

bc

6 265

C

6 875

a

6 341

b

52.5

ab

50.3

b

C60

12 457

c

12 416

bc

6 428

b

6 602

Bc

6 029

b

5 815

d

48.4

c

46.8

c

L28

12 867

c

12 952

ab

5 874

cd

6 159

Cd

6 993

a

6 793

a

54.3

a

52.4

a

C915

11 879

d

12 181

c

5 582

d

5 726

D

6 297

b

6 455

abc

53.0

ab

53.0

a

LSD

769

698

436

471

352

386

2.1

1.8

  1. § similar lower case letters indicate no significant difference among cotton varieties at the P = 0.05 level