Table 2. Three way ANOVA for all response variable (mass, leaf number, inflorescence height, and silique number), using the sterile and non-sterile soil treatments.

	Mass	Leaves	Height	Silique number
Soil	<0.001 62.811(1,424)	<0.001 69.023(1,422)	0.007 7.232(1,421)	0.044 4.077(1.421)
Focal accession	<0.001 48.502(3,424)	<0.001 88.123(3,422)	<0.001 215.496(3,421)	<0.001 207.403(3,421)
Background accession	<0.001 72.886(3,424)	<0.001 2.176(3,422)	0.002 4.883(3,421)	<0.001 8.198(3,421)
Soil × Focal	0.560 0.688(3,424)	0.014 3.586(3,422)	0.826 0.299(3,421)	0.057 2.527(3,421)
Soil × Background	0.988 0.044(3,424)	0.791 0.348(3,422)	0.561 0.686(3,421)	0.293 1.246(3,421)
Focal × Background	0.973 0.307(9,424)	0.017 2.282(9,422)	0.005 2.674(9,421)	0.043 1.955(9,421)
Soil × Focal × Back	0.214 1.339(9,424)	0.161 1.459(9,422)	0.959 0.347(9,421)	0.872 0.503(9,421)

P values (P<0.05 in bold, 0.05<P<0.1 in italics). Below are F values (numerator df, denominator df).