Table 2.

Genetic (above diagonal) and phenotypic (below diagonal) correlations between 13 meat quality-related traits in an F ₂ intercross between KNP and Landrace

	EMA	ALLEMA	MARB	CFAT	SHEAR	MOIST	COOKL	DRIPL	CIE-L	CIE-a	CIE-b	CHROMA	HUE
EMA	1	0.779	−0.195	−0.372	0.229	0.207	−0.004	0.128	0.006	−0.259	−0.221	−0.209	0.100
ALLEMA	0.779‡	1	−0.067	−0.318	0.070	0.239	0.020	0.070	−0.003	−0.380	−0.155	−0.101	0.052
MARB	−0.185‡	−0.096†	1	0.582	−0.254	−0.570	−0.107	−0.201	−0.031	0.250	0.197	0.184	0.047
CFAT	−0.340‡	−0.231‡	0.585‡	1	0.055	−0.691	−0.050	−0.391	0.033	0.751	0.253	0.587	0.368
SHEAR	0.248‡	0.186‡	−0.245‡	−0.247‡	1	0.160	0.297	0.682	0.197	0.445	0.017	0.248	0.090
MOIST	0.155‡	0.097†	−0.587‡	−0.695‡	0.150‡	1	0.076	0.160	−0.067	−0.343	−0.305	−0.318	−0.313
COOKL	1 N.E.	N.E.	−0.111†	N.E.	0.281‡	0.077*	1	0.296	0.455	0.184	0.202	0.267	0.421
DRIPL	0.127‡	N.E.	−0.178‡	−0.189‡	0.180‡	0.129‡	0.290‡	1	0.499	−0.190	−0.160	0.136	0.257
CIE-L	N.E.	N.E.	N.E.	N.E.	0.110†	−0.113‡	0.443‡	0.495‡	1	0.127	0.211	0.496	0.650
CIE-a	−0.234‡	−0.103†	0.230‡	0.591‡	N.E.	−0.321‡	0.162‡	N.E.	0.092†	1	0.656	0.733	0.509
CIE-b	−0.200‡	−0.098†	0.200‡	0.471‡	−0.072*	−0.311‡	0.188‡	N.E.	0.192‡	0.804‡	1	0.179	0.230
CHROMA	N.E.	N.E.	0.188‡	0.376‡	N.E.	−0.313‡	0.259‡	0.164‡	0.454‡	0.578‡	0.530‡	1	0.900
HUE	N.E.	N.E.	0.080*	0.187‡	0.154‡	−0.219‡	0.247‡	0.371‡	0.762‡	0.242‡	0.071*	0.652‡	1

*P < 0.05, ^† P < 0.01, ^‡ P < 0.001, ¹NE: estimated with no significance.