Application of a library of near isogenic lines to understand context dependent expression of QTL for grain yield and adaptive traits in bread wheat

Table 4 Genetic correlations between GRYLD, TGRWT, GRpsqm, GRA, GRL, GRW, PH, HD and the L/W ratio in the 553 BC₂ NILs in 2013 (below the diagonal) and 2014 (above the diagonal)

	GRA	GRpsqm	GRYLD	L/W	GRL	PH	TGRWT	HD	GRW
GRA	-	−0.29	0.11	−0.33	0.67	0.38	0.87	−0.38	0.84
GRpsqm	−0.10	-	0.89	−0.06	−0.31	0.04	−0.24	0.06	−0.14
GRYLD	0.21	0.80	-	−0.31	−0.13	0.25	0.22	−0.16	0.25
L/W	−0.79	0.01	−0.21	-	0.46	−0.36	−0.54	0.38	−0.78
GRL	0.89	−0.13	0.14	−0.43	-	0.07	0.38	−0.03	0.19
PH	0.12	0.27	0.48	−0.08	0.10	-	0.45	−0.37	0.45
TGRWT	0.51	−0.31	0.31	−0.36	0.45	0.33	-	−0.49	0.86
HD	−0.03	0.26	0.07	0.00	−0.05	−0.04	−0.29	-	−0.44
GRW	0.97	−0.07	0.22	−0.91	0.76	0.11	0.47	−0.03	-

Italics and bold letters are P-values under the null hypothesis that the correlation is statistically different from zero for P < 0.01 and P < 0.001, respectively

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