Table 1. Summary statistics of data sets and corresponding traits.

Data set	Trait	N	Meana	S.D. a	r2/h2 b
Cattle	Fat percentage	2000	−0.027	0.294	0.973
	Milk yield	2000	231.7	649.8	0.973
	Somatic cell score	2000	103.1	11.6	0.942
Rice	Days to flower (Arkansas)	374	87.94	12.63	0.785
	Flag leaf length	377	30.63	5.74	0.763
	Flag leaf width	377	1.22	0.25	0.717
	Panicle number per plant	372	3.25	0.41	0.646
	Plant height	383	116.60	21.09	0.832
	Panicle length	375	24.37	3.54	0.781
	Primary panicle branch number	375	9.94	1.78	0.621
	Seed number per panicle	376	4.85	0.33	0.678
	Seed Width	377	3.12	0.39	0.924
	Blast resistance	385	5.04	2.94	0.762
	Amylose content	401	19.88	5.46	0.900

^amean and standard deviation (S.D.) of conventional estimated breeding values for cattle traits or phenotypes for rice traits;

^breliability (r ²) for cattle trait EBV, or heritability (h ²) for rice trait phenotypes.