Table 6.

Correlation coefficients (calculated after removing enzyme effects) between broiler growth performance, determined metabolizable energy, viscosity and pentosan content of the wheat inbred lines

	FI	WG	FCE	vis vivo	AMEn	KV	DV	TP
WG	0.872
FCE	0.258	0.695
vis vivo	−0.125	−0.108	−0.099
AMEn	0.108	−0.189	−0.517	−0.101
vis cSt	−0.618	−0.519	−0.100	−0.377	0.101
vis cP	−0.228	−0.096	0.207	0.012	−0.093	−0.096
TP	−0.729	−0.853	−0.576	−0.306	0.359	0.551	0.303
WSP	−0.537	−0.503	−0.208	−0.229	−0.103	0.904	−0.256	0.377

FI, WG, FCE and vis vivo are the feed intakes, weight gains, feed conversion efficiencies and digesta viscosity of the birds fed diets containing 650 g/kg of the experimental wheat samples.

AMEn is the determined N corrected dietary apparent metabolizable energy of the experimental wheat samples.

KV, DV, TP and WSP are the determined kinematic water extracted viscosity, dynamic water extracted viscosity, total pentosans and water soluble pentosans of the experimental wheat samples.

Df = 8; Correlation coefficients greater than 0.549, 0.632 and 0.765 are statistically significant at P < 0.1, P < 0.05 and P < 0.001, respectively.