Table 2.

Mean squares from the combined analysis of variance of grain yield, days to silk, ASI, ear aspect and EPP (across six environments),
plant aspect (across four environments), Striga rating at 8 and 10 WAP and Striga count at 8 and 10 WAP (across two environments) and Stay
green characteristic (across two environments) of extra-early maturing yellow-endosperm maize inbred lines evaluated in Nigeria, 2011.
Source DF Grain yield Days to ASI Plant Ear aspect EPP DF Striga Striga Striga Striga DF SGC
(kg ha-1) silk (days) (days) height (no.) damage damage Emergence Emergence
(cm) rating at 8 rating at count at 8 count at 10
WAP 10 WAP WAP (no.) WAP (no.)
ENV 5 114297289** 2185.9** 41.8** 90486.6** 409.6** 2.77** 1 227.7** 157.5** 599.89** 248.63** 1 2.5*

Rep(ENV) 6 7263375** 13.4** 3.1** 952.1** 10.5** 0.07** 2 18.1** 16.6** 1.44 0.99** 2 3.5**

Entry 189 2518827** 13.9** 1.6** 430.0** 0.9** 0.03** 189 1.5** 1.7** 0.60 0.45** 189 0.6*

GCA 19 10724087** 67.6** 4.3** 1941.2** 4.1** 0.07** 19 5.4** 5.9** 1.21** 1.13** 19 1.1**

SCA 170 1597473** 7.9** 1.3* 265.1** 0.6** 0.02 170 1.1 1.2** 0.53 0.37 170 0.5

ENV*Entry 944 864551** 4.1** 1.2* 174.2 0.4** 0.02** 189 1.0 1.3** 0.56 0.31 189 0.5

GCA*ENV 95 464583 4.9** 2.1 111.1 2.8** 0.17** 19 1.2 1.6** 0.76 0.34 19 0.6

SCA*ENV 850 575163 3.4 0.9 133.3 1.6** 0.10** 170 1.0 1.3** 0.54 0.31 170 0.5

Error 1122 648377 3.5 1.1 162.7 0.3 0.02 378 1.0 0.8 0.55 0.33 378 0.5

* Significant at p < 0.05.

** Significant at p < 0.01.
SGC = Stay green characteristic