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Table 2 Performance of plant height (PH) and ear height (EH) for TC (Zheng 58) and TC (Chang 7–2) in five environments

From: Quantitative trait locus analysis of heterosis for plant height and ear height in an elite maize hybrid zhengdan 958 by design III

Population

Phenotypic data

Environment

E1

E2

E3

E4

E5

 

PH

TC(Zheng 58)

Mean(cm)

238.80

187.61

226.48

221.29

225.55

Max(cm)

275.48

235.24

270.47

259.83

264.5

Min(cm)

196.43

158.47

178.4

187.79

185.78

TC(Chang 7–2)

Mean(cm)

248.75**a

210.02**

243.81**

243.32**

244.12**

Max(cm)

297.38

242.29

279.2

283.13

274.67

Min(cm)

204.29

175.91

207.07

187.5

206.72

 

EH

TC(Zheng 58)

Mean(cm)

94.85

68.99

93.93

85.17

85.97

Max(cm)

125.00

107.52

117.57

112.75

110.61

Min(cm)

72.38

50.03

64.23

63.96

66.89

r

0.82**

0.78**

0.85**

0.82**

0.84**

TC(Chang 7–2)

Mean(cm)

121.77**

94.36**

119.44**

115.19**

110.42**

Max(cm)

151.67

118.71

141.17

163.38

132.83

Min(cm)

85.95

79.84

89.17

90.63

86.33

r

0.71**

0.71**

0.80**

0.71**

0.83**

  1. ** P ≤ 0.01
  2. aComparison between average performance of TC (Zheng 58) and TC (Chang 7–2) for PH and EH
  3. r: Correlation between PH and EH in each population