Table 3.
Mean, standard deviation, minimum, maximum and heritability values of parents, and F2 or F2:3 populations derived from the cross between cultivated yardlong bean and wild cowpea
| Cultivated yardlong bean, JP81610 |
Wild cowpea, TVnu457 |
F2 or F2:3 |
||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trait | Units | Mean | s.d. | Min. | Max. | Mean | s.d. | Min. | Max. | Mean | s.d. | Min. | Max. | Heritability (%) |
| SDP | (%) | 100·0 | 0·0 | 100·0 | 100·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 78·2 | 36·5 | 0·0 | 100·0 | 100·0 |
| PDD | – | Indehiscence | Dehiscence | Dehiscence : indehiscence* | ||||||||||
| SD100WT | g | 19·4 | 1·4 | 16·6 | 20·9 | 2·5 | 0·2 | 2·2 | 2·7 | 5·7 | 1·9 | 2·0 | 16·1 | 72·6 |
| SDL | mm | 11·9 | 0·4 | 11·3 | 12·5 | 3·9 | 0·2 | 3·6 | 4·1 | 7·2 | 1·1 | 4·3 | 9·9 | 92·5 |
| SDW | mm | 3·7 | 0·2 | 3·3 | 4·0 | 2·0 | 0·1 | 1·8 | 2·2 | 2·7 | 0·3 | 0·8 | 3·8 | 81·0 |
| SDT | mm | 6·2 | 0·2 | 5·9 | 6·5 | 2·7 | 0·3 | 2·4 | 3·9 | 4·0 | 0·5 | 2·6 | 5·8 | 65·7 |
| PDL | cm | 78·1 | 3·1 | 72·9 | 84·0 | 9·9 | 0·4 | 8·8 | 10·4 | 21·3 | 5·8 | 10·2 | 41·3 | 85·7 |
| PDW | mm | 11·5 | 0·8 | 10·0 | 13·0 | 0·5 | 0·0 | 0·4 | 0·5 | 0·7 | 0·1 | 0·5 | 1·0 | 49·9 |
| PDSBS | mm | 26·6 | 1·8 | 23·8 | 30·8 | 1·9 | 0·2 | 1·6 | 2·2 | 9·9 | 3·7 | 2·1 | 26·3 | 87·8 |
| STT | mm | 15·3 | 2·0 | 11·2 | 18·4 | 9·7 | 1·8 | 6·3 | 11·9 | 13·4 | 2·0 | 7·4 | 18·8 | 15·1 |
| LFPL | cm | 7·6 | 0·7 | 6·5 | 8·8 | 2·9 | 0·4 | 2·2 | 3·4 | 4·7 | 0·6 | 2·4 | 6·1 | 18·0 |
| LFPW | cm | 5·2 | 0·5 | 4·5 | 6·0 | 1·6 | 0·2 | 1·2 | 2·0 | 2·9 | 0·4 | 1·9 | 3·7 | 2·6 |
| ECL | cm | 6·6 | 0·9 | 5·0 | 8·0 | 4·2 | 0·5 | 3·2 | 5·0 | 5·2 | 1·1 | 2·5 | 8·5 | 62·2 |
| STL10 | cm | 120·8 | 9·5 | 105·0 | 134·3 | 30·0 | 9·5 | 16·0 | 46·0 | 68·3 | 19·9 | 30·0 | 118·5 | 77·1 |
| FLD | day | 55·1 | 3·5 | 50·0 | 62·0 | 43·9 | 5·9 | 37·0 | 62·0 | 43·9 | 4·3 | 37·0 | 58·0 | 0 |
| PDDM | day | 18·6 | 4·1 | 15·0 | 28·0 | 14·6 | 3·3 | 9·0 | 19·0 | 20·6 | 2·2 | 15·0 | 29·0 | 0 |
| SDTWT | g | 209·0 | 55·5 | 115·0 | 307·5 | 94·9 | 23·3 | 54·3 | 131·8 | 161·1 | 99·8 | 12·9 | 631·1 | 81·8 |
| SDNPPD | count | 20·3 | 0·7 | 19·1 | 21·6 | 17·3 | 0·6 | 15·9 | 17·9 | 12·8 | 3·0 | 7·0 | 20·3 | 95·7 |
| PDTN | count | 128·5 | 20·3 | 59·0 | 130·0 | 504·8 | 131·9 | 248·0 | 701·0 | 461·9 | 248·6 | 15·0 | 1609·0 | 85·6 |
| ECC | – | Green | Green | Green | ||||||||||
| SDC | – | Black | Brown | Brown : black† | ||||||||||
* = 111:77 (ratio = 9 : 7, χ2 = 0·60, P = 0·44).
† = 33:155 (ratio = 3 : 13, χ2 = 0·18, P = 0·67).