Table 1. Means, ranges, and standard deviations (Std. Dev.) of untransformed BLUP values for five kernel colorimeter traits evaluated in the Ames maize inbred panel and estimated heritability on a line-mean basis across two years.
| BLUPs | Heritabilities | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trait | Lines | Mean | Range | Std. Dev. | Estimate | Standard Error |
| hue | 1768 | 82.49 | 61.78 – 93.08 | 4.52 | 0.89 | 0.01 |
| L* | 1768 | 67.19 | 54.01 – 78.22 | 4.09 | 0.75 | 0.01 |
| a* | 1768 | 7.36 | −1.78 – 20.66 | 3.18 | 0.87 | 0.01 |
| b* | 1768 | 55.62 | 36.54 – 74.36 | 6.22 | 0.80 | 0.01 |
| Chroma | 1769 | 56.08 | 36.27 – 74.29 | 5.86 | 0.79 | 0.01 |