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Table 1 Variance composition and broad-sense heritability for 191 BC2F8 families in three environments

From: Genetic analysis of three maize husk traits by QTL mapping in a maize-teosinte population

Traits

Mo17

RILs

Mean square

Heritabilityb

Means ± SD

Range

Environment (E)

Genotype (G)

G × Ea

HL

21.52 ± 1.88

23.49 ± 2.28

17.39–29.80

757.86**

37.24**

3.45**

0.91

NN

9.24 ± 1.92

7.89 ± 0.78

4.80–10.36

5.41**

2.22**

0.31

0.86

HW

7.52 ± 1.00

7.49 ± 0.53

6.22–9.26

40.19**

4.89**

0.7**

0.86

  1. aG × E designates the interaction between G and E; bBroad-sense heritability. * P ≤ 0.05, ** P ≤ 0.01