Table 4.

The Pearson correlation between relative gene expression and total carotenoids content at different flowering stages.

Gene	Different flowering stages
	S1	S2	S3	S4
OfPSY1	–0.162	–0.183	0.041	–0.276
OfPDS1	0.197	0.079	0.068	–0.205
OfZ-ISO1	–0.134	0.270	0.016	–0.157
OfZDS1	–0.012	0.499∗	0.486∗	–0.208
OfCRTISO	0.055	0.253	0.304	0.044
OfLCYE1	–0.028	–0.090	–0.154	–0.163
OfLCYB1	–0.155	0.227	–0.051	–0.137
OfCHYE1	–0.122	0.459∗	–0.109	–0.019
OfCHYB2	–0.159	–0.345	–0.179	–0.217
OfZEP1	–0.151	–0.007	–0.106	–0.125
OfVDE1	–0.096	–0.262	–0.175	–0.226
OfNSY1	–0.166	0.192	–0.049	–0.142
OfNCED3	0.195	0.057	0.087	0.589∗∗
OfCCD1-1	–0.169	–0.139	–0.123	–0.242
OfCCD1-2	–0.137	–0.059	–0.125	–0.156
OfCCD4-1	–0.446∗	–0.534∗∗	–0.522∗∗	–0.346

^∗Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level. ^∗∗Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level.