Meta-analysis of cotton fiber quality QTLs across diverse environments in a Gossypium hirsutum x G. barbadenseRIL population

Table 3 Analysis of variance of fiber traits

			ANOVA (Brazil)			ANOVA (Global)
Fiber trait category (acronym)	Trait	Symbol	F value (RILxYear)	F value (RIL)	h² (Brazil)	nr sites	F value (RIL)	h² (Global)
Fineness (FIN)	Fineness	H	1.07 (NS)	26.6 (***)	0.88	9	9.8 (***)	0.57
	Standard Fineness	Hs	1.17 (NS)	13.8 (***)	0.77	7	4.3 (***)	0.38
	Maturity Ratio	MR	1.38 (*)	24.1 (***)	0.89	10	5.9 (***)	0.37
	Micronaire	IM	1.42 (*)	16.4 (***)	0.85	10	9.8 (***)	0.53
Length (LEN)	Mean Length	ML	1.53 (**)	20.5 (***)	0.88	8	11.3 (***)	0.64
	Length	UHML	1.51 (**)	27.9 (***)	0.91	11	13.0 (***)	0.61
Length Uniformity (UNI)	Uniformity Index	UI	1.58 (**)	13.3 (***)	0.83	7	6.8 (***)	0.49
Strength (STR)	Strength	STR	1.29 (NS)	20.4 (***)	0.83	10	9.7 (***)	0.54
Elongation (ELO)	Elongation	Elo	1.32 (*)	15.9 (***)	0.83	7	4.6 (***)	0.46
Color (COL)	Reflectance	Rd	1.09 (NS)	23.6 (***)	0.86	7	11.7 (***)	0.60
	Yellowness Index	b	1.12 (NS)	32.9 (***)	0.90	7	16.8 (***)	0.69

* Significant at P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001
Analysis of variance were made (i) in the 2 experiments in Brazil (Br7 and Br8), and (ii) over the complete (Global) set of 11 experimental sites. Individual broad sense heritabilities were calculated from the estimates of variance components.

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