Table 3a. Effects of year on components of yield for oil seed sunflowers (Triumph 665) across all treatments.
Mean ± SEM
Year Dry weight of seed / flower (gm) Dry weight of 100 seeds (gm) Seed weight / cm2 flower (mg) Basal stalk circumference (cm) Flower diameter (cm) Percent oil
2004 150.04 ± 1.27b 7.06 ± 0.04b 293.4 ± 2.0a 10.30 ± 0.07b 25.42 ± 0.16b 41.92 ± 0.13a
2005 46.16 ± 1.21a 3.10 ± 0.04a 291.1 ± 2.9a 6.45 ± 0.03a 14.07 ± 0.13a 47.44 ± 0.12b
F 1,4 195.49 274.02 0.59 1109.91 246.96 94.67