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Table 3 Additive genetic (above diagonal) and phenotypic (below diagonal) correlations between wood and fiber quality traits (standard errors within the parenthesis)

From: High negative genetic correlations between growth traits and wood properties suggest incorporating multiple traits selection including economic weights for the future Scots pine breeding programs

 

Wood density traits

Fiber dimension traits

Stiffness traits

 

DEN

EWD

TWD

LWD

FRW

FTW

FWT

MFC

MFA

MOEs

MOEtof

DEN

1

0.856

0.931

0.923

0.121

−0.183

0.773

0.585

−0.556

0.843

0.872

(−0.0591)

(0.0282)

(0.0368)

(0.205)

(0.229)

(0.123)

(0.127)

(0.170)

(0.0778)

(0.0644)

EWD

0.843

1

0.764

0.836

0.0342

−0.248

0.771

0.544

−0.781

0.862

0.904

(0.0168)

(0.0848)

(0.0681)

(0.214)

(0.226)

(0.0889)

(0.142)

(0.134)

(0.0545)

(0.0591)

TWD

0.820

0.693

1

0.930

0.0334

−0.0701

0.909

0.659

−0.593

0.805

0.816

(0.0161)

(0.0268)

(0.0301)

(0.208)

(0.232)

(0.0445)

(0.109)

(0.160)

(0.0856)

(0.0801)

LWD

0.650

0.544

0.703

1

0.125

−0.213

0.893

0.646

−0.522

0.760

0.848

(0.0241)

(0.0319)

(0.0218)

(0.182)

(0.199)

(0.0522)

(0.109)

(0.146)

(0.0845)

(0.0645)

FRW

0.269

−0.258

−0.189

−0.100

1

0.407

0.264

0.647

−0.169

0.0733

0.0111

(0.0532)

(0.0528)

(0.0548)

(0.0552)

(0.199)

(0.201)

(0.122)

(0.224)

(0.215)

(0.210)

FTW

−0.152

−0.199

−0.104

−0.103

0.492

1

0.157

0.523

−0.0556

−0.0811

−0.292

(0.0465)

(0.0461)

(0.0447)

(0.0462)

(0.0401)

(0.233)

(0.165)

(0.254)

(0.238)

(0.222)

FWT

0.663

0.740

0.749

0.609

0.139

0.273

1

0.886

−0.600

0.614

0.770

(0.0139)

(0.0239)

(0.0191)

(0.0285)

(0.0552)

(0.0478)

(0.0444)

(0.170)

(0.0933)

(0.0971)

MFC

0.493

0.439

0.453

0.378

0.468

0.507

0.789

1

−0.515

0.614

0.543

(0.0419)

(0.0441)

(0.0409)

(0.0431)

(0.0431)

(0.0378)

(0.0122)

(0.181)

(0.143)

(0.150)

MFA

−0.207

−0.255

−0.276

−0.382

0.0789

0.0256

−0.181

−0.299

1

−0.911

−0.831

(0.0458)

(0.0432)

(0.0424)

(0.0378)

(0.0511)

(0.0467)

(0.0478)

(0.0522)

(0.0411)

(0.0863)

MOEs

0.552

0.541

0.527

0.517

−0.202

−0.125

0.481

0.283

−0.891

1

0.945

(0.0330)

(0.0341)

(0.0323)

(0.0248)

(0.0544)

(0.0494)

(0.0389)

(0.0504)

(0.00891)

(0.0354)

MOEtof

0.629

0.619

0.566

0.596

−0.213

−0.105

0.565

0.356

−0780

0.755

1

(0.0301)

(0.0311)

(0.0332)

(0.03109)

(0.0551)

(0.0511)

(0.0356)

(0.0489)

(0.0311)

(0.0211)