Table 2.

Means and standard deviations (SD) of 10 phenotypic traits of the recipient cultivar and six pyramided lines (PYLs)

Traits	Lines
	XY22	PYL1	PYL2	PYL3	PYL4	PYL5	PYL6
Plant height (cm) -Shooting period	36.83 ± 2.5	41.57 ± 2.4*	40.57 ± 1.7*	42.00 ± 2.1*	42.67 ± 2.7*	40.53 ± 1.6*	46.47 ± 2.2*
Plant height (cm)-Maturation period	72.43 ± 2.4	67.00 ± 2.0*	64.80 ± 2.7*	65.57 ± 2.2*	65.87 ± 2.4*	67.2 ± 1.7*	66.77 ± 2.5*
Days to flowering	199 ± 0.25	198 ± 0.25	197 ± 0.25	197 ± 0.25	198 ± 0.25	198 ± 0.25	197 ± 0.25
yellow rust resistance	4	2*	3*	2*	1*	1*	2*
Powdery mildew resistance	5	3*	2*	3*	2*	2*	2*
1000 grain weight (g)	41.35 ± 1.52	42.01 ± 1.56	43.4 ± 0.7	41.21 ± 0.86	43 ± 1.2	41.69 ± 0.5	40.3 ± 1.64
Tiller of 1m2	449 ± 14	512 ± 12**	492 ± 8**	487 ± 22**	534 ± 13**	566 ± 22**	593 ± 18**
Kernel number of 30 tassels	1220 ± 50	1201 ± 55	1148 ± 60	1127 ± 37	1107 ± 40	1105 ± 27	1237 ± 54
Grain yield (t/ha)	6.6 ± 0.2	7.6 ± 0.3 **	7.2 ± 0.1 **	7.4 ± 0.6 **	7.7 ± 0.3 **	7.5 ± 0.5 **	8.3 ± 0.2 **

variance values are shown in parentheses, * means PYLs with Xy22 have significant difference (P < 0.05), **means PYLs with XY22 have highly significant difference