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Table. 3.

Table. 3.

Morphological characteristics of 7 quantitative characteristics among 31 maize landrace accessions of 3 regions of South Sudan.

Code Morphological Characters Region Category/Unit Mean ± SD Min   Max
Values Genotype   Values Genotype
QN1 Days of tasseling (DT) SA Days 83.0 ± 6.24 76 MN1 97 GO1
CA - 91.9 ± 9.06 80 AD2 99 AR
NA - 83.6 ± 4.22 79 AW 89 AW
QN2 Days of silking (DS) SA Days 86.1 ± 6.89 78 MN1 101 GO1
CA - 93.1 ± 10.3 79 AD2 101 AR
NA - 82.3 ± 4.26 78 WA 90 RE
QN3 Plant height (PH) SA cm 253.7 ± 34.7 210 GO3 350 TR
CA - 252.6 ± 19.8 214 MD1 273 AR
NA - 266.6 ± 12.8 250 RE 281 BE
QN4 Ear height (EH) SA cm 137.6 ± 30.9 96 GO3 225 TR
CA - 141.3 ± 21.0 103 MD1 170 KO
NA - 156.5 ± 16.2 134 WA 176 YD2
QN5 Stem width (SW) SA cm 3.0 ± 0.86 2.1 GO4 5.4 RJ2
CA - 3.5 ± 0.73 2.5 MD1 4.4 AD1
NA - 3.8 ± 0.85 2.8 RE 5.4 YD1
QN6 Leaf length (LL) SA cm 98.6 ± 12.6 66.5 BO1 120 TR
CA - 96.3 ± 4.85 89.3 AD2 103 TO
NA - 107.1 ± 12.9 94.3 YD1 131 WA
QN7 Leaf width (LW) SA cm 9.7 ± 1.08 7.3 RJ3 11.7 GO1
CA - 10.2 ± 1.64 7.2 AD2 11.8 KO
NA - 10.5 ± 1.06 8.5 RE   12 AW

SA: southern region accessions, CA: central region accessions, NA: northern region accessions.

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