Table 3.

Pearson correlation coefficients among shoot and root traits evaluated in soybean mapping population.

Trait (†)	SL	PH	TRL	RL	RSA	RV	RD_L	RD_S	RD_T
SL	1	0.89	−0.07	−0.11	−0.05	0.03	−0.11	−0.11	0.06
		<.0001	0.052	0.003	0.192	0.477	0.003	0.005	0.123
PH		1	−0.06	−0.12	−0.07	−0.01	−0.12	−0.13	0.08
			0.091	0.001	0.081	0.764	0.001	0.001	0.040
TRL			1	0.23	0.23	0.18	0.28	0.22	0.15
				<.0001	<.0001	<.0001	<.0001	<.0001	<.0001
RL				1	0.95	0.80	0.72	0.85	−0.08
					<.0001	<.0001	<.0001	<.0001	0.027
RSA					1	0.95	0.74	0.82	−0.05
						<.0001	<.0001	<.0001	0.200
RV						1	0.68	0.71	0.02
							<.0001	<.0001	0.558
RD_L							1	0.77	0.19
								<.0001	<.0001
RD_S								1	0.00
									0.938
									1
RD_T

(†): trait descriptions were described in Table 1. The respective p-value for each trait measured are shown as italicized values.

The + and - bold values represent the positive and negative association between traits.