Table 3.

Correlation coefficient matrix for genotype main effect for vegetative budbreak (VB) date; association with location means and GxE values

	BDa	TZUb	GxEc	AVGd
BD	1	0.6	0.51	0.9
TZU		1	0.38	0.89
GxE			1	0.09e
AVG				1

^aBet Dagan (low chilling units) normalized mean over 2 consecutive years (2014–2015)

^bTzuba (high chilling units) normalized mean over 2 consecutive years (2014–2015)

^cGxE values, the difference in normalized mean between BD and TZU

^dOverall normalized mean for both locations over 2 consecutive years (2014–2015)

^eCorrelation was not significant (0.21)

Correlation probabilities lower than 0.001 (Pearson’s test) are in bold