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Table 1 Summary statistics and broad-sense heritability of the traits considered in the genome-wide association study

From: Genome-wide association study for in vitro digestibility and related traits in triticale forage

Trait (unit)

Mean

SD

MIN

MAX

CV

H²

IVD traits

Plant IVOMD (%)

67

2.6

60

72

3.9

0.66

Plant IVNDFD (%)

54

2.6

48

60

4.7

0.73

Stem IVNDFD (%)

38

3.9

29

46

10

0.72

IVD related subtraits

STA (g/kg DM)

269

18

225

303

6.6

0.50

ADFom (g/kg DM)

254

14

231

293

5.4

0.58

Stem KL (g/kg aNDFom)

128

7.7

111

143

6.0

0.65

Stem length (cm)

106

17

68

154

16

0.95

Ear prop (%)

58

3.3

48

64

5.7

0.76

  1. ADFom, acid detergent fibre expressed exclusive of residual ash; aNDFom, neutral detergent fibre assayed with a heat stable amylase and expressed exclusive of residual ash; CV, coefficient of variation; DM, dry matter; ear prop, ear proportion; H², broad-sense heritability; IVD, in vitro digestibility; IVNDFD, in vitro neutral detergent fibre digestibility; IVOMD, in vitro organic matter digestibility; KL, Klason lignin; MAX, maximum; MIN, minimum; SD, standard deviation; STA, starch