. 2019 Jun 17;20:499. doi: 10.1186/s12864-019-5897-5

Table 1.

Pearson’s correlation coefficients among three seed germination-related traits (GR, SL & FW) based on agronomic data of LM6 and ZM6 RIL populations under natural and artificial aging conditions

Treatment	Trait	LM6		ZM6
Treatment	Trait	GR/rGR	SL/rSL	GR/rGR	SL/rSL
Natural aging	SL	0.552^b		0.528^b
Natural aging	FW	0.742^b	0.549^b	0.754^b	0.567^b
Artificial aging	rSL	0.768^b		0.882^b
Artificial aging	rFW	0.948^b	0.744^b	0.884^b	0.816^b

In case of natural aging, the treatment trait value were used such as GR (germination rate), SL (seedling length) and FW (fresh weight); Under artificial aging, relative treatment value were used such as rGR (relative germination rate), rSL (relative seedling length) and rFW (relative fresh weight). ^a &^b represent significance at 5 and 1%, respectively