Fig. 3.

Distribution of RIL means (BLUPs, Best Linear Unbiased Predictors) for the number of leaves emerged prior to and after terminal spikelet and at anthesis, and for the two measured phyllochrons (relative to all the leaves and to the leaves from the second to the eighth). Top: long days, vernalized plants; middle: long days, nonvernalized plants; bottom: short days, vernalized plants. Arrows indicate the performance of the parents (O: cv. Ofanto; C: cv. Cappelli). CV: coefficient of variation; SED: standard error of the difference between best linear unbiased predictors.