Table 2.

Phenotypes of the parental lines and RIL population across three environments

Traita	Env.b	Ye478	Qi319	RIL population
				Range	Mean ± SDc	Skewness	Kurtosis	CVd (%)	Heritability (%)
PH	E1	177.80	218.00	163.50–247.40	200.92 ± 16.38	0.01	−0.63	8.15	93.20
	E2	187.00	237.00	175.17–266.00	217.58 ± 20	0.03	−0.74	9.19	99.06
	E3	180.47	248.53	161.00–255.50	208.71 ± 17.48	−0.03	−0.10	8.38	92.35
EH	E1	72.80	96.50	61.63–100.10	80.05 ± 7.81	0.14	−0.48	8.15	83.30
	E2	68.20	98.08	50.20–116.13	77.65 ± 13.13	0.49	−0.03	9.19	86.37
	E3	68.50	101.00	51.18–116.50	77.81 ± 13.06	0.49	0.01	8.38	86.06
IN	E1	15.47	14.64	11.67–18.80	14.66 ± 0.92	0.08	1.48	10.10	84.18
	E2	15.20	14.73	13.17–19.00	15.61 ± 1.19	0.36	−0.34	12.90	80.61
	E3	15.67	14.67	12.50–19.00	15.54 ± 1.02	0.19	0.25	12.03	82.19

^aTrait is the name of the component of plant architecture: PH, plant height; EH, ear height; IN, internode number

^bEnv., the specific environment: E1 is 2013 Shunyi; E2 is 2013 Gongzhuling; and E3 is 2014 Gongzhuling

^cSD, standard deviation

^dCV, coefficient of variation