Testing of uniformity of seven Lathyrus species using Bennett’s and Miller’s methods

Abstract

In this paper we focused on uniformity of seven Lathyrus species: Lathyrus aphaca, L. cicero, L. clymenum, L. hirsutus, L. ochrus, L. sativus and L. tingitanus. Two statistical methods, the Bennett's and the Miller's were compared. In both methods, coefficient of variation for evaluation of the uniformity of crop varieties was used. Four quantitative traits were analyzed: length of the pod, width of the pod, weight of seeds from the pod and 100 seed weight. The results of the study demonstrated that, the Bennett's method is less restrictive (lesser species were found to be uniform in analyzed traits) compared to the Miller's one.