Research Article
Selection Criteria for Improving Yield in Chili (Capsicum annuum)
Table 1
Analysis of variance (ANOVA) for 15 characters of chili.
| Traits | Replication (2) | Genotype (19) | Error (38) |
| Days to first picking | 63.22 | | 5.60 | Harvest duration | 0.95 | | 8.39 | First fruit maturity | 1.52 | | 4.41 | 100% fruit maturity | 66.72 | | 4.52 | Plant height (cm) | 95.24 | | 61.66 | Number of primary branches | 13.27 | | 6.04 | 10 edible fruit weight (g) | 76.39 | | 219.06 | 10 dry fruit weight (g) | 1.48 | | 0.38 | Fruit length (cm) | 0.07 | | 0.84 | Fruit width (cm) | 0.02 | | 0.01 | Number of seeds per fruit | 202.82 | | 24.33 | Weight of seeds per fruit (g) | 0.01 | | 0.00 | Number of fruits per plant | 177.32 | | 243.35 | 100-seed weight (g) | 0.01 | | 0.00 | Fruit yield per plant (g) | 370.31 | | 4218.06 |
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Values in parenthesis are degrees of freedom and and indicate significance at 5% and 1% levels, respectively.
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