. 2016 Jun 9;11(6):e0157038. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157038

Table 1. Variance components and genetic parameters estimated under the Bayesian multi-trait analysis via Gibbs sampling of weight of 100 seeds (W100S), seed oil content (SOC) and phorbol ester concentration (PEC) traits.

Parameter¹	PM²	PMD	PMO	PSD	HPD	Z	ESS
$σ_{g_{W 100 S}}^{2}$	15.522	15.390	14.708	2.061	11.73, 19.65	0.19	5200
$σ_{g_{W 100 S, S O C}}$	0.891	0.884	0.823	0.408	0.10, 1.69	-0.07	4187
$σ_{g_{W 100 S, P E C}}$	-0.319	-0.318	-0.305	0.247	-0.80, 0.17	0.13	5706
$σ_{g_{S O C}}^{2}$	0.359	0.337	0.299	0.132	0.15, 0.63	0.15	1991
$σ_{g_{S O C, P E C}}$	-0.004	-0.003	0.003	0.067	-0.13, 0.13	0.18	3175
$σ_{g_{P E C}}^{2}$	0.373	0.369	0.386	0.059	0.26, 0.49	0.03	6000
$σ_{e_{W 100 S}}^{2}$	7.498	7.446	7.430	0.799	5.95, 9.02	-0.04	6000
$σ_{e_{W 100 S, S O C}}$	0.008	0.004	0.113	0.317	-0.62, 0.63	-0.07	5426
$σ_{e_{W 100 S, P E C}}$	-0.080	-0.079	-0.063	0.116	-0.32, 0.13	-0.21	5203
$σ_{e_{S O C}}^{2}$	2.416	2.409	2.452	0.214	1.98, 2.82	-0.11	4190
$σ_{e_{S O C, P E C}}$	0.016	0.015	0.020	0.016	-0.11, 0.14	-0.02	4790
$σ_{e_{P E C}}^{2}$	0.312	0.310	0.305	0.033	0.25, 0.37	-0.08	5995
$h_{W 100 S}^{2}$	0.672	0. 674	0.684	0.040	0.586, 0.745	0.131	6000
$h_{S O C}^{2}$	0.129	0.122	0.105	0.045	0.059, 0.232	0.679	2055
$h_{P E C}^{2}$	0.545	0.544	0.551	0.052	0.436, 0.640	-1.573	6000

¹ Genetic variance of i^th trait ( $σ_{g_{i}}^{2}$ ); genetic covariance between traits i and j ( $σ_{g_{i j}}$ ); residual variance of i^th trait ( $σ_{e_{i}}^{2}$ ); residual covariance between traits i and j ( $σ_{e_{i j}}$ ); and heritability of i^th trait ( $h_{i}^{2}$ ).

² Posterior mean (PM), posterior median (PMD), posterior mode (PMO), posterior standard deviation (PSD), posterior high density interval (HPD), Z-Geweke (Z) and effective sample size (ESS).