Table 1 Analysis of variance of a panel of 256 maize inbred lines for fumonisin content in the kernels evaluated in a two-year experiment

Covariance parameters

Estimate

Standard error

Z value

p-value

Year (Y)

0

Replication(Y)

179.15

225.60

0.79

0.2136

Block(R*Y)

523.10

365.94

1.43

0.0764

Y*Inbred

2769.75

891.88

3.11

0.0009

Residual

11,189

823.84

13.58

<.0001

Fixed effect

Numerator DF

Denominator DF

F value

p-value

Inbred

256

235

1.72

< 0.0001