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The Dwarf Saltwort (Salicornia bigelovii Torr.): Evaluation of Breeding Populations

Table 5

Variance components analyses based on fixed (populations and plant color phenotypes) and random (families within populations and plant color phenotypes within families) in nine breeding populations of S. bigelovii.


Trait	Probability of F		Probability of z (% variance)
	Fixed factors		Random factors
	Populations	Plant color phenotypes	Families (populations)	Plant color phenotypes (families)

(1) Plant height (cm)	0.05	0.75	0.12 (8.5)	0.05 (21.5)
(2) Plant dry weight (g)	0.08	0.89	0.32 (9.2)	0.06 (15.9)
(3) Height of lowest spike (cm)	0.02	0.02	0.0 (0.0)	0.30 (2.8)
(4) Spike length (cm)	0.03	0.20	0.0 (0.0)	0.19 (5.9)
(5) Spike weight (mg)	0.03	0.07	0.47 (1.4)	0.03 (27.5)
(6) Spikes plant⁻¹	0.05	0.88	0.0 (0.0)	0.05 (19.5)
(7) Seed weight plant⁻¹ (g)	0.03	0.51	0.06 (38.4)	0.02 (24.2)
(8) Number of sees (spike segment)⁻¹	0.08	0.31	0.07 (46.0)	0.05 (7.5)
(9) Number of seeds spike⁻¹	0.07	0.42	0.09 (22.3)	0.08 (10.7)
(10) Number of seeds g⁻¹	0.05	0.06	0.07 (54.2)	0.04 (19.5)
(11) Spike fertility (%)	0.09	0.36	0.09 (45.0)	0.09 (8.5)
(12) Harvest index (%)	0.05	0.40	0.09 (17.7)	0.01 (39.7)