Table 4. Genetic correlations between morphological traits at the whole-plant level and at the metamer level for an apple core collection.

	Whole-plant
	A_Bio	A_LA	f_Bio	f_LA	Nb_L	H	BS_diam
Metamer
IN_L_max	0.54***	n.s.	0.55***	n.s.	n.s.	0.57***	n.s.
IN_D	0.33**	0.48***	0.44**	0.57***	0.28**	n.s.	0.76***
IN_density	0.25*	n.s.	0.21*	n.s.	n.s	0.26*	n.s.
Leaf_area	0.57***	0.59***	0.54***	0.58***	n.s	0.28**	0.39***
SLW	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s	n.s	n.s.
Leaf:shoot	n.s.	n.s.	-0.24*	n.s.	-0.26**	-0.35***	n.s.

The significance of each Pearson’s r coefficient of correlation is indicated as follows:

* = P<0.05;

** = P<0.01;

*** = P<0.001;

n.s. = not significant. Refer to Table 1 for traits abbreviation.