Influence of season and sowing methods on plant height, number of tillers per plant and number of spikes per hill of lowland rice during dry and rainy seasons of 2015 and 2016 at Zigau, Bauchi State..

Table 2: Influence of season and sowing methods on plant height, number of tillers per plant and number of spikes per hill of lowland rice during dry and rainy seasons of 2015 and 2016 at Zigau, Bauchi State.

Plant height (cm)

No. of tillers per plant

No. of spikes/hill

Treatments

2015

2016

2015

2016

2015

2016

Season (S)

Dry

Wet

SE (±)

54.27^b

59.03^a

^**

0.757

55.44^b

66.79^a

^**

1.014

7.62^a

6.49^b

^**

0.184

8.76^a

7.13^b

^**

0.227

11.42^a

9.59^b

^**

0.854

11.63

11.73

1.135

Sowing method (S)

Transplanting

Dibbling

Drilling

Broadcasting

SE (±)

61.43^a

60.11^a

53.00^b

52.06^b

^**

1.070

66.94^a

64.45^a

60.59^b

59.91^b

^**

1.281

18.86^a

8.34^b

0.90^c

0.80^c

^**

0.260

20.56^a

9.20^b

1.00^c

0.97^c

^**

0.321

18.51^b

21.41^a

1.00^c

^**

0.854

21.73^b

28.94^a

1.00^c

^**

1.605

Interaction

S × S

^**

Means followed by different letters within each column of treatments are significantly different following Duncan Multiple Range Test (DMRT)
LS: Level of significance; NS: Not significant; **Significant at 1% level of probability