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Table 1. Number of spears accumulated per palm in several oil palm crosses. Four-year old palms planted in an area with severe water deficit (mean 700 mm/year) in Costa Rica |
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| Female Progenitor | Male progenitor | |||||||
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| AVROS | Calabar | Ekona | La Mé | Mobai | Tanzania | Yangambi | Mean | |
| Angola | 2.3 | 2.3 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| Bamenda | 1.9 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 1.9 | 2.5 | 2.4 | |
| Deli Dura | 2.8 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 2.3 |
| Deli Ekona | 2.1 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 3.3 | 1.8 | 2.4 | ||
| Tanzania | 1.6 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 2.3 | ||
| Malawi | 1.9 | |||||||
| Mean | 2.1 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 2.2 |
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