Improving productivity and soil fertility in Medicago sativa and Hordeum marinum through intercropping under saline conditions

Guerchi, Amal; Mnafgui, Wiem; Jabri, Cheima; Merghni, Meriem; Sifaoui, Kalthoum; Mahjoub, Asma; Ludidi, Ndiko; Badri, Mounawer

doi:10.1186/s12870-024-04820-3

Table 1 Effects of cultivation mode, treatment, number of harvests, and their interactions on measured traits for M. sativa and H. marinum

From: Improving productivity and soil fertility in Medicago sativa and Hordeum marinum through intercropping under saline conditions

	M. sativa
Trait	Mean	Cultivation mode (CM)		Treatment (T)		Harvest period (H)		CM x T		CM x H		H x T		CM x H x T
Trait	Mean	F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P
NA	3.98	14.03	0.000	0.718	0.4	5.35	0.007	1.43	0.246	0.77	0.531	0.15	0.701	0.27	0.775
LS	32.4	60.54	0.000	0.17	0.677	0.89	0.415	5.47	0.006	4.41	0.003	7.04	0.01	6.25	0.003
LR	9.12	69.6	0.000	5.88	0.018	267.56	0.000	9.25	0.000	17.09	0.000	12.13	0.001	4.69	0.012
AFW	2.85	70.87	0.000	14.65	0.000	22.71	0.000	2.92	0.061	6.77	0.000	3.15	0.081	8.48	0.001
ADW	1.95	48.16	0.000	5.05	0.028	20.89	0.000	7.8	0.001	8.09	0.000	1.43	0.237	6.26	0.003
RFW	1.06	29.21	0.000	2.66	0.108	59.1	0.000	3.65	0.031	2.55	0.047	0.22	0.637	2.7	0.074
RDW	0.37	27.49	0.000	5.49	0.023	12.44	0.000	2.49	0.09	3.832	0.007	0.7	0.404	4.45	0.015
NHL	73.73	52.15	0.000	3.56	0.064	19.21	0.000	2.27	0.044	5.53	0.001	0.00	0.995	2.14	0.126
NYL	17.6	14.02	0.000	12.36	0.001	6.66	0.002	1.86	0.163	1.17	0.332	0.982	0.325	1.98	0.147
	H. marinum
	Mean	Cultivation mode (CM)		Treatment (T)		Harvest period (H)		CM x T		CM x H		H x T		CM x H x T
	Mean	F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P
NA	32.28	13.68	0.000	1.02	0.317	7.26	0.001	0.68	0.512	3.98	0.006	4.85	0.031	0.83	0.439
LS	19.31	4.6	0.014	1.7	0.196	1.19	0.31	3.8	0.053	2.78	0.034	0.88	0.351	0.14	0.872
LR	8.16	20.64	0.000	27	0.000	378.15	0.000	0.97	0.384	4.81	0.002	2.1	0.152	0.3	0.741
AFW	4.62	12.57	0.000	2.34	0.131	7.62	0.001	0.56	0.574	1.64	0.176	0.03	0.868	1.93	0.153
ADW	2.41	13.47	0.000	0.01	0.94	3.75	0.029	0.05	0.95	1.27	0.291	0.52	0.472	1.8	0.174
RFW	1.07	6.61	0.002	4.13	0.03	23.19	0.000	0.88	0.417	5.72	0.001	1.5	0.226	1.48	0.234
RDW	0.46	11.67	0.000	15.22	0.000	40.99	0.000	2.99	0.057	7.79	0.000	0.07	0.794	1.18	0.315
NHL	103.58	25.33	0.000	14.9	0.000	13.67	0.000	3.08	0.053	2.85	0.031	0.04	0.84	7.39	0.001
NYL	25.38	39.39	0.000	7.82	0.007	82.27	0.000	17.42	0.000	20.36	0.000	0.68	0.412	18.88	0.000

Number of axes (NA), length of stems (LS. cm), length of roots (LR. cm), aerial fresh weight (AFW. g), aerial dry weight (ADW, g), root fresh weight (RFW, g), root dry weight (RDW. g), number of healthy leaves (NHL) and number of yellow leaves (NYL)

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