Characterization of pepper (Capsicum spp.) germplasms based on morphological and phytochemical characters in Bangladesh

Table 2 Analysis of variance of twelve morpho-physiological characters of 30 pepper genotypes

Character	Sources of variation with mean sum of square
Character	Replication	Genotype	Error	Coefficient of variation (%)
Days to flowering	4.47^NS	29.33***	10.70	3.88
Plant height (cm)	155.33^NS	252.72*	140.94	24.21
Primary branches per plant	3.07*	4.99***	0.72	21.18
Secondary branches per plant	2.53^NS	10.72***	2.67	23.46
Tertiary branches per plant	26.17^NS	87.68***	12.37	22.00
Chlorophyll content (SPAD)	2.96^NS	73.91***	27.09	12.66
Fruit length (cm)	2.25^NS	4.52***	1.38	21.90
Fruit diameter (mm)	0.74^NS	9.05***	1.08	16.60
Fresh fruit weight (g)	14.87^NS	50.61***	6.34	32.01
Dry fruit weight (g)	0.03^NS	0.15***	0.03	28.62
1000- seed weight (g)	0.10^NS	7.03 ***	0.19	16.12
Vitamin C-content (mg/ 100 g)	0.01^NS	83.54***	0.02	1.75

NS indicates not-significant
‘*’, ‘**’ and ‘***’ indicates significant at 5%, 1% and 0.1% levels of probability, respectively

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