Research Article

Genome-Wide Association Studies for Striga asiatica Resistance in Tropical Maize

Table 4

Mean squares for total Striga plants emerged and haustoria root attachment.

Source of variationDFTotal Striga plants emergedHaustoria root attachment

Replications2145.885332
Inbred lines29169.145195
Residual5886.292150
IVC20.71761.25
EVC86.292150
VP1072911.25
BSH19.3626.15
GM10.1246.32
GCV44.9659.56
PCV102.2116.48

DF: degrees of freedom, IVC: inbred line variance component, EVC: error variance component, VP: phenotypic variance, BSH: broad sense heritability, GM: grand mean, GCV: genotypic coefficient of variation, PCV: phenotypic coefficient of variation. and means significant at and , respectively.