Table 2.

Analysis of variance for leaf colour (SPAD) and the expression of the selected genes

	Trait/Gene	Effect of treatment		Effect of genotype
		F value	p value	F value	p value
	SPAD	11.2	0.0009	6.6	<2E-16
Drought stress genes	A1	50.1	4.88E-12	8.8	<2E-16
	Dhn1	138.4	<2E-16	23.5	<2E-16
	GAD3	81.8	<2E-16	96.7	<2E-16
	NADP_ME	315.5	<2E-16	4.1	4.63E-09
	P5CS2	229.6	<2E-16	335.4	<2E-16
Leaf senescence genes	Contig7437	0.9	0.342	128.7	<2E-16
	GSII	175.4	<2E-16	65.1	<2E-16
	hv_36467	160.2	<2E-16	46.9	<2E-16
	LHC1b20	102.4	<2E-16	156.7	<2E-16
	pHvNF-Y5α	76.5	<2E-16	196.4	<2E-16
Genes out of GWASa	AVP1	51.4	2.06E-12	37.9	<2E-16
	ETFQO	16.3	5.98E-05	41.3	<2E-16
	SAPK9	9.0	0.00312	5.8	2.88E-07
	TRIUR3	96.5	<2E-16	38.1	<2E-16

^aGenes coding for proteins identified by BlastX of significant marker sequences out of a previous genome wide association study (GWAS) by Wehner et al. [20]