Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for the six variables used to measure the pod shattering trait in the population of bean introgression lines.

Shattering trait	Statistics
	Mean (%)	Standard deviation (%)	Standard error of the mean	95% confidence interval
Completely non-dehiscent	50.4	26.7	1.6	47.2–53.6
Valves separated to some degree	49.6	26.7	1.6	46.4–52.8
– Fissured	18.0	13.4	0.8	16.4–19.7
– Dehiscent	31.6	21.3	1.3	29.1–34.1
– Twisting	11.5	10.9	0.7	10.2–12.8
– Non-twisting	20.1	14.3	0.9	18.4–21.8