Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of 33 measured traits (30 root traits, and three shoot traits) in 270 chickpea genotypes grown in a semi-hydroponic phenotyping platform

Trait	Minimum	Maximum	Mean	Median	Std. Deviation	CV*	P value*
TRL_z1	17.0	80.0	55.7	55.6	11.7	0.21	<0.001
TRL_z2	2.67	36.3	16.4	16.0	5.97	0.37	0.042
TRL	38.3	105	72.1	72.2	12.2	0.17	0.001
RL	305	3824	1175	1078	453	0.42	<0.001
BL	267	3765	1103	1004	447	0.44	<0.001
BN	23.1	764	188	159	105	0.66	<0.001
ABL	4.11	14.0	6.93	6.85	1.32	0.21	<0.001
RA	94.8	1027	319	294	123	0.42	<0.001
RV	2.36	22.03	6.95	6.38	2.75	0.43	<0.001
RD	0.68	1.07	0.87	0.87	0.06	0.07	<0.001
SRL	32.5	264	65.7	58.7	27.2	0.46	<0.001
BLR_tap	6.62	77.8	15.6	14.4	6.63	0.46	<0.001
BD	0.57	15.7	2.61	2.28	1.52	0.67	<0.001
BI	0.08	0.24	0.16	0.15	0.03	0.20	<0.001
RTD	1.27	9.87	3.05	3.05	0.82	0.27	<0.001
RL_top	140	923	440	426	122	0.29	<0.001
BL_top	120	903	420	406	122	0.30	<0.001
RD_top	0.77	1.09	0.92	0.92	0.06	0.06	<0.001
RL_s2	71.6	868	426	574	158	0.28	<0.001
RD_s2	0.64	1.00	0.82	0.82	0.06	0.08	<0.001
RL_s3	21.1	827	309	431	273	0.63	<0.001
RD_s3	0.62	1.05	0.86	0.86	0.08	0.09	<0.001
RL_sub	144	1575	735	647	378	0.58	<0.001
BL_sub	126	1497	683	597	372	0.62	<0.001
RD_sub	0.64	1.03	0.84	0.84	0.07	0.08	<0.001
RLR_top/sub	0.23	2.22	0.70	0.65	0.30	0.46	<0.001
BLR_top/sub	0.23	2.63	0.73	0.67	0.33	0.49	<0.001
RGR	1.10	3.00	2.06	2.06	0.35	0.17	0.001
RM	119	370	198	190	61.8	0.32	<0.001
SM	81.9	1006	329	297	142	0.48	<0.001
RMR	0.19	1.55	0.68	0.68	0.21	0.31	0.275
SH	8.23	30.0	16.8	17.0	4.26	0.25	<0.001
LBN	10.0	55.7	13.6	13.3	3.64	0.27	0.710

* Traits with coefficients of variation (CVs) ≥0.3 appear in bold type. Probability values (P) were based upon a GLM multivariate analysis of 270 genotypes and appear in bold if <0.01 and italic if <0.05 (see Table 1 for units of each trait).