Winged bean origins

Table 2. The Agronomic characteristics of 135 winged bean accessions classified
according to countries of origin.

Variable		Country of Origin
Variable		PNG¹	Indonesia (Bogor)	Indonesia (Other)	Malaysia	Thailand	Sri Lanka
Total No. of Accessions	-	52	7	6	21	45	4
No. of branches / plant.^a	Mean	2	4	5	5	5	5
No. of days to first flower.	Mean	53	>111	74	90	83	-
No. of days to first flower.	S.E.^c	1	12	11	4	4	-
Fresh shoot (non-pod) yield (kg/m²).^b	Mean	0.3	3.6	1.7	3.6	1.8	2.5
Fresh shoot (non-pod) yield (kg/m²).^b	S.E.	0.1	0.7	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.8
Fresh root yield (g/m²).^b	Mean	10	101	64	127	136	93
Fresh root yield (g/m²).^b	S.E.	2	15	14	10	14	36
Largest root diameter (cm)	Mean	0.5	1.0	1.2	1.1	1.8	0.9
Largest root diameter (cm)	S.E.	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Mature pod yield (g/m²).^b	Mean	98	5	64	14	16	11
Mature pod yield (g/m²).^b	S.E.	7	5	17	3	4	8

^{^a} Number of branches in the first 10 nodes of the main stem.

^{^b} Based on 2 replicate plots of each accession grown under natural
daylength at 3^o latitude at Serdang, Malaysia. All yields measured
at harvest on day 165 after planting.

^{^c} S.E. = Standard error.

¹ PNG = PNG

Winged bean origins

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