Table 1.

Phenotypic performance, variance component and broad-sense heritability of kernel moisture content at harvest stage

Location	Mean ± SDa (%)	Range (%)	Skewness	Kurtosis	σ2 g b	σ2 ge c	H2d (%)
Nantong	33.97 ± 0.38	21.50–41.00	−0.18	−0.59	17.50**	6.81**	82.00
Sanya	33.93 ± 0.45	19.63–43.63	−0.38	−0.42
BLUPe	33.95 ± 0.32	23.38–40.43	−0.17	−0.53

^astandard deviation;

^bvariance of genotype;

^cvariance of genotype × environment;

^dbroad-sense heritability;

^ebest linear unbiased prediction;

^**Significant at P < 0.01.