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. 2012 Sep 19;7(9):e44784. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044784

Table 3. Flowering time in days for each line across generations with realized heritability estimates (Inline graphic) with standard error and 95% confidence limits (standard error = SE, lower limit = LL, upper limit = UL) by line and averaged for each ploidy.

Diploids Neotetraploids Tetraploids
Line 1 Line 2 Control Line 1 Line 2 Control Line 1 Line 2 Control
Base 44.2a 47.1b 50.3c
Generation 1 39.1a 37.2b 40.5c 41.0a 43.2b 41.2a 42.9a 44.0a 46.9b
Generation 2 43.8a 44.6a 47.7b 48.3a 48.4a 51.0b 50.3a 52.1b 55.7c
Generation 3 42.5a 41.6a 45.3b 44.4a 43.2b 48.1c 47.0a 48.5b 52.5c
Generation 4 34.3a 32.7b 38.2c 35.3a 37.3a 42.1b 38.4a 40.2a 44.2b
bT 0.32 0.49 0.65 0.46 0.37 0.26
LL 0.30 0.47 0.61 0.42 0.35 0.24
UL 0.34 0.52 0.69 0.49 0.40 0.28
SE 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.01
Average bT 0.40 0.55 0.31
LL 0.38 0.51 0.28
UL 0.43 0.59 0.34

Letters indicate significant differences at p = <0.05 between ploidies or lines or according to Tukey's HSD.