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Table 1 Combined analysis of variance on some physiological and agronomic traits and of the cowpea as affected by irrigation regimes, genotypes and development stage

From: Cowpea seeds from plants subjected to restricted-and full-irrigation regimes show differential phytochemical activity

SOV

df

Content of total phenolics

Content of ortho-diphenols

Content of flavonoids

ABTS radical scavenging capacity

DPPH radical scavenging capacity

Leaf N

Leaf P

Leaf K

Leaf Mg

Leaf Ca

Year

1

28.56*

1.14ns

1.10*

0.00*

0.00ns

2196ns

47.20ns

970ns

1.91*

0.58ns

Block (Year)

4

1.48

0.49

0.05

0.00

0.00

1166

57.07

134.90

0.16

0.14

Irrigation (IR)

1

124.10**

147.17**

1.89ns

0.00**

0.00*

51,551**

6076**

43,260**

23.30**

0.02ns

Year × IR

1

13.02ns

4.99*

0.11ns

0.00ns

0.00ns

640 ns

15.10ns

231ns

0.54ns

0.34ns

IR × Block (Year)

4

3.62

0.50

0.34

0.00

0.00

946

44.60

523

0.29

0.66

Genotype (G)

3

10.80**

4.32**

1.40**

0.00**

0.00**

4151**

252.60**

2454**

0.65**

0.00ns

Development stage (D)

2

1.45ns

2.09**

0.50**

0.00**

0.00**

1403**

135.09**

1252**

0.63**

0.04ns

IR × G

3

0.00ns

0.30ns

0.04ns

0.00**

0.00ns

64.3ns

9.52ns

24.90ns

0.00ns

0.04ns

IR × D

2

0.83ns

1.96**

0.47**

0.00**

0.00*

623**

84.90**

1371**

0.46**

0.06ns

G × D

6

0.07ns

0.02ns

0.00ns

0.00ns

0.00ns

16.08ns

1.28ns

16.8ns

0.00ns

0.00ns

IR × G × D

6

0.07ns

0.04ns

0.01ns

0.00ns

0.00ns

39.07ns

7.88ns

9.10ns

0.00ns

0.00ns

G × Year

3

0.24ns

0.18ns

0.10*

0.00*

0.00ns

10.37ns

4.09ns

319**

0.00ns

0.01ns

D × Year

2

0.08ns

0.06ns

0.09ns

0.00ns

0.00ns

3.08ns

1.11ns

0.61ns

0.00ns

0.02ns

IR × G × Year

3

0.37ns

0.00ns

0.00ns

0.00ns

0.00ns

71.98ns

1.98ns

9.39ns

0.00ns

0.00ns

IR × D × Year

2

0.21ns

0.04ns

0.10ns

0.00ns

0.00ns

104.2ns

3.90ns

3.35ns

0.01ns

0.02ns

G × D × Year

6

0.77ns

0.07ns

0.01ns

0.00ns

0.00ns

60.9ns

0.11ns

7.92ns

0.00ns

0.01ns

IR × G × D × Year

6

0.24ns

0.08ns

0.03ns

0.00ns

0.00ns

78.3ns

0.93ns

47.10ns

0.00ns

0.00ns

Error

88

0.47

0.11

0.03

0.00

0.00

48.06

3.56

64.10

0.02

0.07

CV (%)

 

10.90

10.59

7.54

5.97

8.35

6.25

4.34

7.05

9.11

11.80

  1. S.O.V. The Source of Variation, ns not significant; * and ** significant at the 5% and 1% levels of probability, respectively