lucerne: Fertility of lucerne

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Fertility of lucerne

Description

Ten plants were used in an experiment of fertility of lucerne Two clusters of flowers were selected from each plant and pollinated. One cluster was bent down, whereas the other was exposed to wind and sun. At the end of the experiment, the average number of seeds per pod was counted for each cluster and the weight of 1000 seeds was registered for each cluster.

Usage

data(lucerne)

Format

A data frame with 10 observations on the following 5 variables.

plant

plant id

seeds.exp

average number of seeds per pod from cluster exposed to sun and wind

wgt.exp

weight of 1000 seeds from cluster exposed to sun and wind

seeds.bent

average number of seeds per pod from cluster that was bent down

wgt.bent

weight of 1000 seeds from cluster that was bent down

Source

H.L. Petersen (1954). Pollination and seed setting in lucerne. Kgl. Veterinaer og Landbohojskole, Aarsskrift 1954, 138-169.

Examples

data(lucerne)

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