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Table 2 Statistics of 17 traits collected

From: Transcriptomic and genome-wide association study reveal long noncoding RNAs responding to nitrogen deficiency in maize

Trait

Treatment

Mean

Sd

Min

Max

Skew

Kurtosis

H2

F-value

(Treatment)

F-value

(Genotype)

SL (cm)

HN

LN

36.278

30.377

6.113

5.367

17.400

16.567

52.367

48.233

0.152

0.138

0.124

0.026

0.580

0.570

265**

5.136**

5.028**

LN

HN

LN

3.557

3.370

0.363

0.357

2.700

2.300

5.100

5.000

0.252

0.471

0.497

1.638

0.415

0.404

87.15**

3.128**

3.038**

PRL (cm)

HN

LN

17.968

16.758

3.927

3.834

4.567

7.250

28.300

33.567

0.181

0.280

0.003

0.782

0.271

0.279

21.34**

2.135**

2.171**

CRN

HN

LN

4.030

4.104

1.001

0.957

0.000

1.000

8.000

6.667

0.111

0.054

1.911

0.051

0.410

0.397

1.498**

3.03**

2.978**

SRN

HN

LN

6.332

6.415

1.842

1.803

2.333

2.556

13.667

12.667

0.716

0.525

1.045

0.186

0.677

0.660

1.216ns

7.299**

6.829**

RFW (g)

HN

LN

0.793

0.690

0.221

0.183

0.273

0.298

1.518

1.397

0.467

0.563

0.122

0.438

0.621

0.610

112.7**

5.914**

5.744**

SFW (g)

HN

LN

1.375

0.955

0.405

0.262

0.450

0.442

2.551

1.850

0.271

0.417

0.256

0.247

0.552

0.577

451.7**

4.703**

5.057**

TPB (g)

HN

LN

0.057

0.061

0.014

0.015

0.028

0.033

0.109

0.115

0.637

0.602

1.291

0.544

0.638

0.649

31.81**

6.311**

6.548**

LDW (g)

HN

LN

0.106

0.085

0.030

0.024

0.045

0.043

0.213

0.195

0.463

0.762

0.131

1.072

0.585

0.593

180.5**

5.314**

5.562**

TDW (g)

HN

LN

0.163

0.147

0.041

0.036

0.074

0.083

0.302

0.296

0.565

0.776

0.607

0.945

0.609

0.622

67.59**

5.753**

5.99**

TRL (cm)

HN

LN

267.097

268.077

92.748

100.252

35.040

71.685

649.066

632.929

0.534

0.515

0.491

0.134

0.472

0.516

0.18**

3.686**

4.196**

SA (cm2)

HN

LN

49.225

45.211

15.109

14.607

12.737

16.316

103.775

100.769

0.491

0.634

0.201

0.537

0.545

0.562

29.8**

4.586**

4.845**

ARD (cm)

HN

LN

0.629

0.585

0.079

0.075

0.424

0.399

1.002

0.871

0.474

0.472

1.416

0.871

0.571

0.640

107.5**

5.225**

6.79**

RV (cm3)

HN

LN

0.756

0.632

0.247

0.199

0.290

0.287

1.652

1.227

0.820

0.819

0.696

0.377

0.609

0.616

130.1**

5.681**

5.803**

Tips

HN

LN

337.396

345.986

133.261

136.940

51.667

96.750

756.667

852.800

0.600

0.566

0.080

0.171

0.516

0.571

0.614**

4.197**

4.997**

Forks

HN

LN

1043.947

1057.359

470.938

535.802

117.000

249.857

2939.571

3568.400

0.807

1.145

0.655

2.286

0.618

0.633

0.071**

5.853**

6.182**

Crossings

HN

LN

132.270

147.887

83.802

95.869

9.333

13.833

477.750

607.600

1.114

1.278

1.104

2.347

0.495

0.518

6.616**

3.942**

4.219**

  1. **Significant at P < 0.01; ns Not significant; H2 Broad-sense heritability; HN High nitrogen; LN Low nitrogen. SL Shoot length; LN Leaf number; PRL Primary root length; CRN Crown root number; SRN Seminal root number; RFW Root fresh weight; SFW Shoot fresh weight; TPB Total plant biomass; LDW Leaf dry weight; TDW Total dry weight; TRL Total root length; SA Surface area; ARD Average root diameter; RV Root volume