Table 5.

Significant marker fragments identified by stepwise linear regression (P < 0.001)

Trait1	BI	SG	SCB	TY
	PHO1A-b	StI013-a	HQT-c	GLDH-h
	4CL-1b	PHO1B-1a
Marker Fragment2	StI013-e	PHO1B-1b
		LipIII-27-a
Exp. Var.3 (%)	21,5	38,2	33,3	7,5

¹ Bruising Index (BI), Specific gravity (SG), Starch corrected bruising (SCB), Tuber yield (TY)

² Associated marker fragment derived from corresponding candidate gene

³ Amount of genetic variance explained by the sum of significant markers at P < 0.001