Table 2.

Effects of allelic variation of previously reported agronomic loci/genes on kernel weight and kernel length in the current mapping panel.

KASP assay	Frequency (variant)	Kernel weight			Kernel length
		Mean AA	Mean BB	p-value	Mean AA	Mean BB	p-value
Rht-B1	231 (Rht-B1a)/88 (Rht-B1b)	35.36	36.38	0.1015	6.28	6.19	0.0364
Rht_B1a_160IND	205 (Rht-B1a)/116 (Rht-B1a+160)	35.59	35.56	0.9421	6.24	6.28	0.3506
Rht_B1_197IND	315 (Rht-B1a)/8 (Rht-B1a+197)	35.66	34.36	0.3451	6.25	6.46	0.1101
Rht-D1	276 (Rht-D1a)/45 (Rht-D1b)	35.8	34.79	0.1211	6.26	6.25	0.9481
Ppd-A1	256 (Ppd-A1a)/53 (Ppd-A1a.1_insens)	35.42	36.18	0.2588	6.26	6.27	0.8326
Ppd-D1-Ciano67	271 (Ppd-D1a)/37 (Ppd-D1a_Ciano67_insens)	35.51	36.02	0.5506	6.27	6.26	0.9127
Ppd-D1-Mercia	269 (Ppd-D1a)/47 (Mercia_type_insertion)	35.75	34.38	0.0188	6.25	6.29	0.4281
Ppd-D1-Norstar	130 (Ppd-D1a)/189 (Norstar_type_deletion)	35.99	35.40	0.2437	6.24	6.27	0.5413
TaSus2-2B	85 (TaSus2-2B)/226 (no TaSus2-2B)	35.32	35.66	0.5634	6.15	6.31	0.0003
TaCWI-4A	221 (Hap-4A-C)/88 (Hap-4A-T)	35.49	35.80	0.5750	6.25	6.30	0.2532
TaTGW6-A1	171 (TaTGW6-A1b)/143 (TaTGW6-A1b)	35.52	35.56	0.9400	6.25	6.27	0.5466
TaGS-D1	108 (TaGS-D1a)/199 (TaGS-D1b)	35.43	35.41	0.9661	6.33	6.23	0.0200
TaGW2	305 (TaGW2)/16 (TaGW2_SS-MPV57)	35.78	32.14	0.0006	6.25	6.37	0.3133