Table 1.

Climate and geographic regressions with boxcox transformed MP as the dependent variable

X	P valueb	r 2
Latitude	2.3e−6***	0.069
Longitude	<2e−16***	0.22
Altitude	0.20	2.3e−3
January min temperature	<2e−16***	0.22
January mean temperature	<2e−16***	0.22
January max temperature	<2e−16***	0.22
February min temperaturea	<2e−16***	0.23
February mean temperature	<2e−16***	0.22
February max temperature	<2e−16***	0.21
March min temperature	2.6e−16***	0.20
March mean temperature	2.4e−15***	0.19
March max temperature	1.0e−13***	0.17
April min temperature	5.5e−10***	0.12
April mean temperature	1.8e−7***	0.084
April max temperature	4.2e−5***	0.052
May min temperature	2.0e−5***	0.056
May mean temperature	7.3e−3**	0.021
May max temperature	0.26	1.0e−3
June min temperature	1.0e−3**	0.032
June mean temperature	0.085	6.6e−3
June max temperature	0.67	−2.7e−3
July min temperature	3.7e−4***	0.039
July mean temperature	0.021*	0.015
July max temperature	0.25	1.1e−3
August min temperature	1.2e−6***	0.073
August mean temperature	5.9e−4***	0.036
August max temperature	0.039*	0.011
September min temperature	9.7e−13***	0.15
September mean temperature	6.9e−9***	0.10
September max temperature	2.9e−5***	0.054
October min temperature	1.0e−15***	0.19
October mean temperature	2.3e−13***	0.16
October max temperature	3.1e−10***	0.12
November min temperature	<2.2e−16***	0.20
November mean temperature	7.1e−16***	0.19
November max temperature	1.1e−14***	0.18
December min temperature	<2.2e−16***	0.21
December mean temperature	<2.2e−16***	0.21
December max temperature	3.2e−16***	0.20

^aThe most significant predictor of seed oil melting point.

^b*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001.