nalysis of variance (Table 1)
indicated significant differences among
varieties in plant height, tiller density and
leaf-to-stem ratio but there were no
significant differences in cumulative drymatter yield over the 12-month period.
Table 2 shows the clear separation of the
varieties into two distinct groups, where six
of the varieties, namely: King Grass,
Common Napier, Red Napier, Taiwan
Napier, Uganda Napier and Indian Napier
were not significantly different from each
other and the plant height were all greater
than 139 cm. The other three varieties:
Dwarf, Dwarf ‘Mott’ and Australian Dwarf
were significantly shorter in stature (P