Table 5 Correlation coefficients estimated between heading date and another related trait in the both seasons of 2014.

From: Analysis of Epistasis among QTLs on Heading Date based on Single Segment Substitution Lines in Rice

Type of correlation

Season

Trait pair

hd-ph

hd-pn

hd-pl

hd-pd

hd-pgn

hd-fgn

hd-sp

hd-tkw

hd-gy

Phenotype

The early

−0.089

0.019

0.667**

0.078

0.373**

0.036

−0.512**

0.244

0.072

The late

0.281**

−0.045

0.125

0.306**

0.381**

0.074

−0.483**

−0.087

0.021

Genotype

The early

−0.096

0.023

0.733**

0.119

0.471*

0.056

−0.649**

0.264

0.100

The late

0.375**

−0.071

0.146

0.362**

0.487**

0.114

−0.550**

−0.102

0.038

Additive

The early

0.932

0.906

0.997**

0.079

0.577

0.612

−0.860

−0.235

0.366

The late

0.395

−0.530

0.110

0.542

0.678*

−0.273

−0.856**

−0.090

−0.282

Dominance

The early

−0.591

−0.002

0.814

0.044

0.435

0.037

−0.564

0.945

0.102

The late

0.055

−0.519

0.294

−0.226

−0.143

−0.634

0.161

0.226

−0.684*

Epistasis

The early

0.377

0.142

0.034

0.113

0.088

0.067

−0.401

−0.445

−0.012

The late

−0.460**

−0.396**

−0.266

0.249

0.220

−0.225

0.049

−0.186

−0.331*

  1. hd, ph, pn, pl, pd, pgn, fgn, sp, tkw and gy represented heading date (days), plant height (cm), panicle number, panicle length (cm), panicle density (grain/cm), per panicle grain number, filled grain number, setting percentage (%), thousand kernel weight (g) and grain yield per plant (g), respectively. Sign “-” indicated inverse correlation between trait pairs. Superscripts “* and **” indicated the significances at 5% and 1% level, respectively.