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. 2012 Mar 5;7(3):e32069. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032069

Table 5. Evolution of phenological traits in experimental evolution populations of Arabidopsis thaliana in the ‘water stress’ and ‘competition’ treatments.

Treatment type Source GERM BT INT FLO RP FRR
Water stress Block 0.0001 0.396 0.0003 0.059 0.216 0.209
Generation 0.0001 0.0005 0.993 0.0001 0.0001 0.109
treatment intensity 0.0001 0.0001 0.069 0.078 0.552 0.009
generation×treatment intensity 0.091 0.004 0.691 0.780 0.956 0.799
population (treatment intensity) 0.290 0.639 0.906 0.811 0.74 0.95
population (treatment intensity)×generation 0.963 0.129 0.836 0.445 0.436 0.51
Competition block 0.860 0.712 0.588 0.003 0.095 0.009
generation 0.0001 0.0005 0.008 0.004 0.017 0.063
treatment intensity 0.571 0.339 0.484 0.982 0.967 0.994
generation×treatment intensity 0.555 0.673 0.96 0.965 0.83 0.954
population (treatment intensity) 0.071 0.018 0.44 0.375 0.141 0.734
population (treatment intensity)×generation 0.11 0.003 0.875 0.285 0.872 0.333

For each environmental stress treatment, values indicate 95th percentile of P-values obtained for each tested factor after simulating the initial composition of the theoretical G0 populations 500 times (see Material and Methods section). Values in bold indicate significant P-values. GERM: germination timing, BT: bolting time, INT: interval between bolting and anthesis, FLO: flowering, RP: reproductive period duration, FRR: flowering-to-reproductive period ratio.