Table 1. Comparison of the number of detected main effect QTL and the genotypic variance explained by these QTL (p G in %) for the different models.
| Model | WSY | SC | RY | Na | K | N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple | ||||||
| QTL | 523 | 503 | 549 | 468 | 441 | 200 |
| pG | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| PReml | ||||||
| QTL | 372 | 312 | 275 | 244 | 419 | — |
| pG | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | — |
| PCor | ||||||
| QTL | 208 | 218 | 236 | 163 | 283 | 174 |
| pG | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| K matrix | ||||||
| QTL | 8 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 9 |
| pG | 73.4 | 38.1 | 63.1 | 58.7 | 12.8 | 10.4 |
| Cofactors | ||||||
| QTL | 31 | 24 | 15 | 25 | 26 | 6 |
| pG | 100 | 74.9 | 85.7 | 88.7 | 77.2 | 42.6 |
| Cofactors+PReml | ||||||
| QTL | 37 | 21 | 27 | 18 | 28 | — |
| pG | 100 | 75.3 | 75.2 | 66.4 | 63.9 | — |
| Cofactors+PCor | ||||||
| QTL | 26 | 25 | 25 | 16 | 15 | 20 |
| pG | 85.2 | 58.3 | 73.6 | 58.4 | 58.7 | 49.4 |
| Cofactors+K matrix | ||||||
| QTL | 7 | 6 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
| pG | 70.8 | 45.5 | 60.2 | 33.2 | 6.7 | 2.6 |
Abbreviations: K, potassium content; N, α-amino nitrogen content; Na, sodium content; RY, root yield; SC, sugar content; WSY, white sugar yield.
Results are shown for six traits.