Leaf length and width (LL and LW)Le

Leaf length and width (LL and LW)
Leaf width varied between 9 and 19 mm with a means of
11 mm for lowland NERICA, while 11.9, 20.34 and 15.4
mm means were recorded with promising lines. The
minimum, maximum and means for O. glaberrima, O.
sativa and control varieties were 15.15, 12 and 11.8 mm,
respectively. The minimum and maximum recorded for LL
were 25.7 and 55.2 mm for lowland NERICA and were
31.5 and 65.8 mm for promising lines. The means LW of
37.2, 50, 50.87, 32.58 and 40.86 mm were obtained from
lowland NERICA, promising lines, O. glaberrima and O.
sativa parents, and control varieties, respectively.