Table 1 Variance components, narrow-sense and broad-sense heritability, their standard errors in parenthesis, column and row autocorrelations and model fit in terms of Akaike’s Information Criterion (AIC) estimated for Dothistroma needle blight resistance at each site and age

Add.Gen.Var.

0.678 (0.182)

0.317 (0.096)

0.165 (0.045)

81.20 (19.12)

36.13 (9.188)

Non-add.Gen.Var.

0.399 (0.108)

0.041 (0.066)

0.022 (0.028)

20.18 (10.83)

6.984 (5.428)

Block Var.

0.032 (0.020)

0.122 (0.051)

0.018 (0.012)

0.000 (0.000)

2.887 (1.545)

Residual Var.

1.036 (0.043)

1.327 (0.068)

0.566 (0.020)

88.01 (3.259)

78.12 (2.670)

AR1 col

0.913

0.659

0.796

0.838

0.893

AR1 row

0.824

0.738

0.852

0.872

0.918

h²

0.321 (0.073)

0.188 (0.052)

0.219 (0.053)

0.429 (0.081)

0.298 (0.066)

H²

0.509 (0.027)

0.212 (0.033)

0.249 (0.027)

0.536 (0.028)

0.356 (0.030)

AIC

4644

4961

2451

19474

18097

h²*

0.316 (0.072)

0.161 (0.045)

0.211 (0.026)

0.370 (0.074)

0.270 (0.061)

AIC*

4737

5108

2562

19727

18327

Phenotypic mean

21.1

15.5

12.2

27.4

23.4

Phenotypic st. dev.

14.56

14.64

7.78

15.49

13.14