Table 4. a).

Relationships between bird parameters and chemical and physical parameters of wheat

Parameter	Correlation coefficient
	Dry matter intake	Liveweight gain	Gain:feed	In vivo viscosity	ME:GE*	AME**	ME:Gain
Specific weight	0.031	0.008	−0.019	0.057	0.118	0.114	0.086
Thousand grain weight	0.299	0.360	0.371	−0.112	0.019	0.057	−0.260
In vitro viscosity	0.371	0.343	0.224	0.306	−0.254	−0.216	−0.333
Crude protein	0.079	0.106	0.135	−0.073	−0.374	−0.344	−0.283
Neutral detergent fibre	−1.033	−0.046	0.037	0.530	0.203	0.233	0.036
Starch	0.183	0.013	−0.199	−0.399	−0.407	−0.446	−0.087
Total non starch polysaccharides	0.395	0.312	0.148	0.150	−0.485	−0.445	−0.429
Soluble non starch polysaccharides	0.232	0.136	−0.017	0.152	−0.370	−0.334	−0.252
Lysine	−0.494	−0.469	−0.327	0.152	0.027	−0.004	0.314
Threonine	0.307	0.292	0.211	−0.007	−0.272	−0.238	−0.384
Gross energy	0.111	0.110	0.105	0.064	−0.403	−0.349	−0.299
Amylose	0.017	0.007	−0.011	−0.516	−0.066	−0.089	−0.032
Hardness	0.385	0.409	0.385	0.203	−0.058	−0.068	−0.305
RSD rate constant	0.508	0.459	0.304	0.043	−0.342	−0.281	−0.449
Protein profile - Band 1	−0.268	−0.282	−0.233	−0.091	0.029	−0.016	0.149
Protein profile - Band 2	−0.382	−0.317	−0.181	0.332	0.413	0.357	0.296
Protein profile - Band 3	−0.128	−0.126	−0.098	−0.326	−0.022	−0.022	0.129
Protein profile - Band 4	0.405	0.363	0.252	−0.510	−0.401	−0.376	−0.408
Protein profile - Band 5	−0.083	−0.068	−0.053	0.364	0.286	0.300	0.178

Correlation values ≥0.173, 0.242, 0.318 are significant (p<0.05, 0.01 and 0.001 respectively). Significant correlations are highlighted in bold.

^*ME:GE = Metabolizable energy:gross energy.

^**AME = Apparent metabolizable energy.