Unraveling the genetic basis of grain number-related traits in a wheat-Agropyron cristatum introgressed line through high-resolution linkage mapping

Table 1 Correlation coefficients between the investigated traits of the RILs and their parents

Traits	Environments	GNS	GNSL	TSS
GNSL	Across	0.7874^***
	2015LC	0.8470^***
	2016LC	0.7682^***
TSS	Across	0.5532^***	0.3304^***
	2013LC	0.4640^***	NA
	2014LC	0.4454^***	NA
	2015LC	0.4960^***	0.2787^***
	2015SJZ	0.4037^***	NA
	2016LC	0.4229^***	0.1999^**
FSS	Across	0.6781^***	0.4216^***	0.9505^***
	2013LC	0.6213^***	NA	0.9211^***
	2014LC	0.6276^***	NA	0.9110^***
	2015LC	0.6570^***	0.4429^***	0.9247^***
	2015SJZ	0.4636^***	NA	0.9392^***
	2016LC	0.6485^***	0.3330^***	0.8907^***

GNS grain number per spike, GNSL grain number per spikelet, TSS total spikelet number per spike, FSS fertile spikelet number per spike, NA not applicated
^**p ≤ 0.01
^***p ≤ 0.001

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