Table 3.

Summary of simple sequence repeat (SSR) alleles associated with fiber-related traits in at least two environments.

Trait	E	Associated alleles	Position	Chromosome	P-value	R2 (%)	Allele effects
ADF	14HS	m13_173	221	2	0.00377	2.54	3.32
	15HS	m13_173	221	2	0.00058	3.60	3.32
	14HS	m350_342	113	1	0.00329	2.72	1.47
	15HS	m350_342	113	1	0.00276	2.73	1.29
	13HS	m561_216	406	3	0.00001	5.95	−1.48
	14HS	m561_216	406	3	0.00073	3.60	−1.35
ADL	13HS	m561_216	406	3	0.00005	5.25	−0.36
	14HS	m561_216	406	3	0.00428	2.56	−0.16
NDF	14HS	m13_173	221	2	0.00131	3.13	4.26
	15HS	m13_173	221	2	0.00047	3.76	3.84
	14HS	m350_342	113	1	0.00186	3.05	1.81
	15HS	m350_342	113	1	0.00146	3.12	1.56
	13HS	m561_216	406	3	0.00001	6.46	−1.92
	14HS	m561_216	406	3	0.00170	3.10	−1.45
NDFD 30 h	14HS	m350_342	113	1	0.00318	2.80	0.45
	15HS	m350_342	113	1	0.00002	5.96	0.69
NDFD 48 h	14CP	m115_183	913	7	0.00145	7.87	3.97
	15HS	m115_183	913	7	0.00278	2.71	3.71
	14HS	m13_173	221	2	0.00014	4.40	2.07
	15HS	m13_173	221	2	0.00153	2.97	1.43
	14CP	m5_152	517	4	0.00186	7.04	3.87
	15HS	m5_152	517	4	0.00235	2.77	3.67
	14CP	m520_134	791	7	0.00171	8.62	3.91
	15HS	m520_134	791	7	0.00241	2.99	3.67
	14CP	m520_137	793	7	0.00171	8.62	3.91
	15HS	m520_137	793	7	0.00241	2.99	3.67
	14HS	m561_216	406	3	0.00056	3.72	−0.65
	13HS	m561_216	406	3	0.00035	4.06	−0.63
	14HS	m710_236	663	5	0.00231	2.90	0.96
	15HS	m710_236	663	5	0.00303	2.63	0.84

Abbreviations of traits and environments are explained in Materials and Methods.

R², the explained phenotypic variance.