Table 2.

Correlation coefficient (R) between phenotypic value and relative expression amount of candidate genes during the development of soybean seed in the representative accessions with relative higher and lower oleic- and linolenic- acid content

Relative expression amount	Sample no.	Oleic acid content				Relative expression amount	Oleic/Linoleic acid content				Relative expression amount	Linolenic acid content
		L-1	L-2	L-3	L-4		L-1a	L-2	L-3	L-4		L-1	L-2	L-3	L-4
Glyma.07G 046200	L-1	0.24				Glyma.16G200200	0.32/0.63*				Glyma.07G254500	−0.33
	L-2		0.57*					0.46/−0.09					0.05
	L-3			0.27					−0.06/0.36					−0.33
	L-4				0.68**					0.05/0.07					0.10
Glyma.07G 151,300	L-1	0.21				Glyma.16G003500	0.22/0.23				Glyma.14G194300	0.84***
	L-2		0.49					0.33/0.44					0.21
	L-3			−0.31					0.1/0.23					0.78***
	L-4				−0.27					−0.17/0.36					0.20
Glyma.13G 068600	L-1	0.01				Glyma.20G245500	0.24/0.12
	L-2		0.18					0.33/0.12
	L-3			0.05					0.28/0.10
	L-4				0.21					0.59*/−0.23

Note: R = 0.54936 (df = 8, α = 0.1); R = 0.63190 (df = 8, α = 0.05); R = 0.76459 (df = 8, α = 0.01)