High-resolution spectral information enables phenotyping of leaf epicuticular wax in wheat

Table 4 Mean, genetic variance (\({{\varvec{\sigma}}}_{{\varvec{g}}}^{2}\)), heritability estimate (\({{\varvec{h}}}^{2}\)), error variance (\({{\varvec{\sigma}}}_{{\varvec{e}}}^{2}\)) and coefficient of variation (CV in %) of EW content (mg·dm⁻²), EWI-1, EWI-2, EWI-3, EWI-4, EWI-9 and EWI-13

		Mean	\({\sigma }_{g}^{2}\)	\({h}^{2}\)	\({\sigma }_{e}^{2}\)	CV
EW (mg·dm⁻²)	DS-1	1.72	0.014	0.56	0.014	6.9
	DS-2	2.40	0.015	0.51	0.018	5.8
	DS-3	1.54	0.016	0.58	0.014	7.6
EWI-1	DS-1	0.31	0.00039	0.78	0.00025	5.0
	DS-2	0.37	0.0004	0.86	0.0001	2.9
	DS-3	0.41	0.0007	0.78	0.0004	5.2
EWI-2	DS-1	0.31	0.00039	0.83	0.00025	5.1
	DS-2	0.17	0.0003	0.77	0.0002	7.9
	DS-3	0.41	0.00001	0.46	0.0004	5.2
EWI-3	DS-1	6.72	2.07	0.85	0.72	12.6
	DS-2	3.2	0.34	0.78	0.19	13.7
	DS-3	26.6	7.4	0.48	16.5	13.9
EWI-4	DS-1	− 1.28	0.0006	0.58	0.0008	22.7
	DS-2	-0.23	0.0003	0.65	0.0002	6.8
	DS-3	− 0.37	0.0007	0.80	0.0003	5.3
EWI-9	DS-1	-0.48	0.0065	0.84	0.0024	10.2
	DS-2	− 0.28	0.0016	0.74	0.0011	12.1
	DS-3	− 0.12	0.00006	0.63	0.00007	7.3
EWI-13	DS-1	0.72	0.0001	0.75	0.00007	11.5
	DS-2	0.092	0.000039	0.78	0.000023	5.2
	DS-3	0.29	0.0001	0.62	0.0001	3.6

EW and the indices were estimated across three sets of data (DS 1 to 3) collected from wheat inbreed lines evaluated during the agronomic cycle from 2012 to 2013, 2014 to 2015 and 2016 in the research station of CIMMYT near at Ciudad Obregon, Sonora in Mexico and Bushland, Texas

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