TABLE 3

Marker loci significantly associated with flowering time (days after planting) and plant height (cm) and effect on the traits of an allelic substitution at these loci

IBLIBL × Topas
groupa
Sign.Variance
explainedb
(%)
Effect of
RRDDc
(days or cm)
Sign.Variance
explainedb
(%)
Effect of
TRTDc
(days or cm)
Flowering time
wg6b10aN2****22.66.2****12.91.4
ec3g3bN2****1.81.6**1.20.4
ec3f12bN3****4.02.2****3.80.8
ec2e4bN7***1.51.3NS
wg6g9aN8    ***1.9[1.6, —0.9]NS
wg3h8aN9    ****2.3[-1.8, 0.8]NS
ec2d1bN12****26.0[2.7, 8.3]****12.3[0.7, 1.8]
wg6e1N15NS***2.7[NS, 0.8]
tg5b2dun.NS****2.5[-3.8, NS]
wg6b10a × ec2d1bd****3.8[NS, —3.3]NS
Plant height
wg6b10aN2****11.6010.6****8.55.8
ec4d11bN3****4.206.4NS
ec2d1bN12****11.30[5.8, 17.7]****5.24.8
ec3g3aN13**2.705.0NS
• ** Significance level of 1%; ** significance level of 0.1%; **** significance level of 0.01%. NS, not significant; Sign., significance level of marker locus; —, effect does not apply.

• a Nomenclature of Parkin et al. (1995)

• b Percentage of the variance explained by a locus when added last to the model.

• c R, D, and Tindicate the recurrent parent, donor parent, and Topas alleles at the locus, respectively. RR→DD represents the substitution of the RR genotype by the DD genotype (more details are provided in materials and methods). When effects differed significantly in each background (P < 0.01), estimates of allele substitution are reported in brackets for each background separately, [EstimateMarnoobackground, EstimateWestarbackground]. Otherwise, a pooled estimate is given.

• d Estimates the interaction as difference between the effect of the joint substitution of alleles at both loci and the sum of the effect of allele substitution at each locus separately.