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. 2018 Mar 20;9:366. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00366

Table 2.

Mean, 1st and 3rd quartile, heritability, genotype effect and genotype-by-location interaction (g*l), for different traits evaluated in experiments that included hybrids under well-watered (Hybrids_WW), hybrids under drought stress (Hybrids_DS), lines under well-watered (Lines_WW) and lines under drought stress conditions (Lines_DS).

   Experiment Trait
GY (t/ha) AD (days) PHT (cm) ASI (days) NDVI SEN LR GLAD DSS (%)
Hybrids_WW Mean 7.02 81.8 221 −0.11 15.9 63.0
SE 0.65 1.43 7.2 1.26 0.99 NA
1st quartile 6.71 81.2 218 −0.29 15.7 61.3
3rd quartile 7.39 82.4 225 0.04 16.1 64.8
h2 0.70 0.78 0.75 0.52 0.51
genotype *** *** *** *** ***
g*l *** *** *** *** ***
Hybrids_DS Mean 2.59 83.1 195 1.83 14.1 127 52.9 22.6
SE 0.38 0.87 0.35 0.86 0.71 6.9 4.96 1.67
1st quartile 2.51 82.7 194 1.78 13.9 126 52.5 22.3
3rd quartile 2.68 83.5 196 1.88 14.3 128 53.1 23.0
h2 0.37 0.65 0.31 0.17 0.57 0.38 0.14 0.53
genotype ** ** ** * ** *** ns ***
g*l *** *** *** *** *** *** ** ***
Lines_WW Mean 2.07 87.4 112 0.61 11.6 63.8
SE 0.28 NA 8.2 2.59 0.69 NA
1st quartile 1.89 86.3 107 0.38 11.4 60.2
3rd quartile 2.25 88.5 117 0.82 11.7 68.7
h2 0.52 0.79 0.81 0.30 0.45
genotype *** *** *** * ***
g*l *** *** *** *** ***
Lines_DS Mean 0.75 89.6 102 1.07 10.9 142 69.0 8.14
SE 0.21 1.5 7.49 1.42 0.18 11.2 5.56 0.26
1st quartile 0.63 88.0 98.5 1.81 10.6 139 66.3 7.46
3rd quartile 0.85 91.3 106 0.20 11.3 145 71.4 8.65
h2 0.76 0.91 0.80 0.76 0.71 0.61 0.66 0.81
genotype *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
g*l *** *** ns * ** *** *** ***

Traits measured included grain yield (GY), anthesis date (AD), plant height (PHT), anthesis-silking interval (ASI), normalized differential vegetative index (NDVI), senescence (SEN), leaf rolling (LR), GLAD and drought stress susceptibility (DSS).

ns, *, **, ***

non-significant, and significant at p < 0.1, 0.05, and 0.01, respectively.