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Table 1 Broad-sense heritability for Verticillium-related traits in the A. thalian a (Bur×Ler) F2/F3 mapping population.

From: Genetic and environmental control of the Verticillium syndrome in Arabidopsis thaliana

Trait

Exp.

H2

Method

Degree of Verticillium colonisation (vec; malt agar test; number of colonised shoot segments/total number of shoot segments in%)

E1

0.58

F3P

 

E2

0.59

 
 

E3

0.76

 

Degree of Verticillium colonisation (vec a; real-time qPCR; pg Verticillium DNA/100 mg shoot fresh weight)

E3

0.45

VCA

Development time (dt; days from germination to maturity in mock-inoculated plants)

E1

0.46

VCA

 

E2

0.49

 
 

E3

0.62

 

Shoot fresh weight (g)

E1

0.21

VCA

 

E2

0.40

 
 

E3

0.49

 

Stunting resistance (stre; shoot height of Verticillium-inoculated plants in cm)

E1

0.35

VCA

 

E2

0.49

 
 

E3

0.39

 

Verticillium-induced axillary branching (vab; number of plants with a branching score above the overall median of Verticillium-inoculated plants)

E1

0.54

F3P

 

E2

0.67

 
 

E3

0.82

 
  1. Broad-sense heritability (H2) of traits for each experiment (exp.) was calculated either with variance component analysis (VCA) [42] or with the F3P method [43] as indicated.