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Table 4 Yield and yield components of dry maize grains in maize-cassava cropping pattern infested by Fall Army Worm cultivated in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria under two pheromone heights as a means of determining population dynamics

From: Population dynamics of Fall Army Worm [(Spodoptera frugiperda) J.E. Smith] (Lepidoptera: Nuctuidae) in maize-cassava intercrop using pheromone traps in Niger Delta Region

Maize data

Pheromone trap height

Sole Maize variety

Cassava- Maize variety Intercrop

Mean ± SD

OBA Super 98

White Maize

Yellow Maize

OBA Super 98

White Maize

Yellow Maize

Ear weight

1 m

40.87 ± 15.95

29.13 ± 13.68

29.27 ± 11.68

69.80 ± 17.65

2.40 ± 2.15

2.20 ± 3.03

28.54 ± 11.28

1.5 m

38.00 ± 7.51

4.47 ± 1.68

14.00 ± 9.24

17.40 ± 2.85

76.87 ± 12.30

93.67 ± 13.34

40.93 ± 13.16

Mean ± SD

39.43 ± 6.73

16.80 ± 5.68

21.63 ± 6.46

43.60 ± 12.25

39.63 ± 11.73

47.93 ± 12.19

 

Husk weight

1 m

10.80 ± 3.23

11.60 ± 2.42

9.87 ± 9.40

19.27 ± 6.27

1.40 ± 2.92

0.87 ± 0.47

8.28 ± 3.89

1.5 m

15.87 ± 2.98

1.27 ± 0.26

6.07 ± 2.84

8.80 ± 2.03

21.53 ± 11.49

31.47 ± 2.85

13.87 ± 3.79

Mean ± SD

13.33 ±  ± 2.12

6.43 ± 1.54

7.97 ± 3.62

14.03 ± 5.65

11.47 ± 2.71

16.17 ± 2.16

 

Cob weight

1 m

30.07 ± 12.10

17.53 ± 9.62

19.47 ± 1.66

50.53 ± 2.89

1.00 ± 0.30

1.33 ± 0.64

19.72 ± 6.94

1.5 m

22.13 ± 10.15

3.20 ± 1.30

7.93 ± 4.67

8.60 ± 4.65

55.33 ± 17.27

62.20 ± 13.48

26.98 ± 18.80

Mean ± SD

26.1 ± 11.63

10.37 ± 2.96

13.70 ± 7.14

29.57 ± 11.27

28.17 ± 16.79

31.77 ± 18.56

 

Empty cob weight

1 m

12.80 ± 3.72

10.27 ± 3.86

9.07 ± 2.47

15.87 ± 3.84

1.00 ± 0.30

0.73 ± 0.84

8.21 ± 3.66

1.5 m

11.00 ± 2.15

1.40 ± 0.58

6.00 ± 2.23

3.87 ± 1.60

21.20 ± 11.45

23.80 ± 11.47

11.21 ± 1.17

Mean ± SD

11.90 ± 2.94

5.83 ± 1.72

7.53 ± 1.35

9.87 ± 2.72

11.10 ± 3.88

12.27 ± 3.66

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