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Table 3.

Coefficients of correlation for relative expression of the selected genes and the relative SPAD values

		A1	Dhn1	GAD3	NADP_ME	P5CS2	Contig7437	GSII	hv_36467	LHC1b20	pHvNF-Y5α	AVP1	ETFQO	SAPK9	TRIUR3
	Rel. SPAD	0.09	0.02	−0.10	0.01	0	−0.16*	0.24**	−0.13	0.19*	0.34***	0.16*	0.09	−0.15	0.15*
Drought stress genes	A1		0.68***	0.68***	0.44***	0.76***	0.38***	0.15	0.10	−0.16	−0.12	0.14	0.18*	0.37**	−0.11
	Dhn1			0.73***	0.35**	0.72***	0.64***	0.08	0.26**	−0.17*	−0.11	0.12	0.15	0.30*	−0.18*
	GAD3				0.43***	0.84***	0.65***	0	0.17*	−0.31***	−0.28***	0.09	0.20*	0.34**	−0.34***
	NADP_ME					0.49***	0.15	0.29*	0.15	−0.01	0.10	0.27*	0.24*	0.22	0.25*
	P5CS2						0.50***	0.17*	0.13	−0.19*	−0.09	0.10	0.18*	0.40**	−0.18*
Leaf senescence genes	Contig7437							−0.17*	0.45***	−0.24**	−0.35***	0.18*	0.16*	0.21	−0.25**
	GSII								0.09	0.55***	0.64***	0.47***	0.53***	0.18	0.44***
	hv_36467									0.19*	−0.09	0.15	0.30***	0.03	0.01
	LHC1b20										0.49***	0.38***	0.39***	0.10	0.39*
	pHvNF-Y5α											0.42***	0.28***	−0.26*	0.41***
Genes out of GWAS^a	AVP1												0.46***	0.22	0.54***
	ETFQO													0.17*	0.35*
	SAPK9														0.06

r is significant with *p <0.05, **p <0.01 and ***p <0.001

^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]