Effect of Seedling Age on Rice Yield

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1 IMPACT OF SEEDLING AGE ON RICE YIELD AND YIELD COMPONENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS To write this paper, the knowledge of statistical techniques and plant biology science were required. Data availability was also crucial. By myself I could not get at term. Special thanks to Dr Muhammad MUSTAFA for helping me to learn more about statistical techniques. Feelings of gratitude are addressed to Dr Marc NGENDAHAYO for teaching me plant biology and biometric sciences. Deepest thanks to Ir. Lambert NUNZUBUMWE for helping me to install trial plots and collect row data for this paper. His help has been very useful. Desire HAKIZIMANA MBA, Agribusiness Major, SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. II. III. IV. INTRODUCTION MODEL DATA ANALYSIS IV.1. REGRESSION BETWEEN SEEDLING AGE AND DIFFERENT INDEPENDENT VARIABLES IV.1.1. REGRESSION BETWEEN SEEDLING AGE AND PLANT HEIGHT ON THE TRANSPLANTING DAY IV.1.2. REGRESSION BETWEEN SEEDLING AGE AND RECOVERY RATE IV.1.4. REGRESSION BETWEEN SEEDLING AGE AND PLANT RICE GRAIN YIELD IV.2. INTERACTION BETWEEN AGE AND LOCALITY IV.2.1: ANOVA FOR THE VARIABLE RECOVERY RATE IV.2.2: ANOVA FOR THE VARIABLE 1000 GRAIN WEIGHT NUMBER PER PANICLE IV.2.3: RICE GRAIN YIELD V. CONCLUSION VI. REFERENCES LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES A. TABLES TABLE 1: DATA SUMMARY TABLE 2: SUMMARY OUTPUT OF ANOVA TEST FOR THE REGRESSION BETWEEN AGE AND PLANT HEIGHT TABLE 3: SUMMARY OUTPUT OF ANOVA TEST FOR THE REGRESSION BETWEEN AGE AND RECOVERY RATE TABLE 4: SUMMARY OUTPUT OF ANOVA TEST FOR THE REGRESSION BETWEEN AGE AND YIELD TABLE 5: ANOVA TEST FOR THE VARIABLE “RECOVERY RATE” TABLE 6: ANOVA TEST FOR THE VARIABLE “1000 GRAIN WEIGHT” TABLE 7: ANOVA TEST FOR THE VARIABLE “RICE GRAIN WEIGHT” B. FIGURES FIGURE 1: REGRESSION BETWEEN SEEDLING AGE AND PLANT HEIGHT ON TRANSPLANTATION DAY FIGURE 2: REGRESSION BETWEEN SEEDLING AGE AND PLANT RECOVERY RATE FIGURE 3:

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