Table 4.

F-ratios from ANCOVA for the effects of parent drought treatment on MS-AFLP PCs generated from primer combination 1. The PCs were constructed using the quantitative coding values for offspring plants grown under control watering conditions. Significant multivariate test statistic (Wilks's λ) protected subsequent univariate tests from Type I errors. *P ≤ 0.05; **P ≤ 0.01; ***P ≤ 0.001.

	df	PC1	PC2	PC3	PC4	PC5	Wilks's λ
Parent treatment	2	0.250	0.119	0.019	0.285	7.411**	2.075*
Flat	6	10.963***	6.165***	5.041***	1.043	5.115***	7.500***
Family	6	1.054	0.646	0.638	0.468	1.548	0.704
Seedling size	1	2.556	0.522	0.220	0.243	0.983	0.978
Error	33