Environmental and genetic regulation of plant height in soybean

BMC Plant Biology

Table 1 Phenotypic variation and genetic analysis of plant height traits among 308 soybean germplasm varieties grown in two distinct environments

Trait ^a	Env ^b	Mean ± SD	MIN	MAX	CV%	Kurt	Skew	h²b
SH	BL	48.08 ± 14.68	12.00	110.00	30.52	2.42	1.14	0.92
	HN	26.50 ± 6.35	5.00	57.00	23.96	1.34	0.41	0.90
	Total	36.50 ± 15.4	5.00	110.00	42.20	2.37	1.29	0.39
SNN	BL	12.77 ± 3.01	3.00	24.00	23.60	0.27	0.27	0.89
	HN	9.53 ± 1.67	4.00	17.00	17.58	0.81	0.38	0.74
	Total	11.02 ± 2.88	3.00	24.00	26.13	0.81	0.85	0.40
AIL	BL	3.81 ± 0.94	1.23	10.00	24.77	3.90	1.41	0.81
	HN	2.80 ± 0.56	0.56	4.89	19.94	0.87	0.17	0.83
	Total	3.27 ± 0.91	0.56	10.00	27.96	4.06	1.34	0.38

Note: ^a SH, shoot height, cm; SNN, stem node number, #·plant^− 1; AIL, average internode length, cm·per node^− 1; ^b BL and HN represented the experimental sites of Boluo and Hainan, respectively; Total, includes data from both environments; MIN and MAX, the minimum and maximum values, respectively, of plant height traits; CV%, coefficient of variation; Kurt and Skew represent the Kurtosis and Skewness of plant height traits, respectively; h²b, broad-sense heritability

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