Genome-wide association study uncovers major genetic loci associated with seed flooding tolerance in soybean

BMC Plant Biology

Table 1 Statistics for seed flooding tolerance traits of 243 PI soybean accessions

Trait^a	Env.^b	Mean ± SD^c	Min	Max	h^2d	F values from ANOVA^e			Pearson correlation
						G	E	G × E	GR	ShL	RL
EC	2018	492.45 ± 294	120.00	1858.5	0.79	667.51***	21.67***	1.97***	- 0.40*	- 0.50*	- 0.50*
EC	2019	485.69 ± 295	106.05	1867.5	0.79	667.51***	21.67***	1.97***
GR	2018	0.76 ± 0.15	0.19	0.95	0.98	21.48***	0.24 ^ns	3.24^ns		0.36*	0.38*
GR	2019	0.76 ± 0.14	0.23	0.97	0.98	21.48***	0.24 ^ns	3.24^ns
ShL	2018	0.78 ± 0.15	0.27	0.99	0.98	30.94***	0.88^ns	2.17***			0.73*
ShL	2019	0.79 ± 0.14	0.26	0.99	0.98	30.94***	0.88^ns	2.17***
RL	2018	0.72 ± 0.20	0.2	0.98	0.99	35.26***	0.78^ns	5.05***
RL	2019	0.72 ± 0.19	0.24	0.98	0.99	35.26***	0.78^ns	5.05***

^aEC Electrical conductivity (μS·cm⁻¹/g⁻¹), GR Germination rate, ShL Shoot length (cm), RL Root length (cm)
^bEnvironment
^cAverage of 2 biological repeats ± standard deviation
^dBroad-sense heritability
^eG-Genotype; E-Environment; GE-Genotype by Environment interaction
^***indicates significance level at p < 0.001; ns indicates non-significant
^*correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)

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