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Table 3 Across-trial estimates of variances, narrow-sense individual heritability, narrow-sense family heritability, type B genetic correlation, relative expected genetic gain by selecting the top 1%, standard error (between parentheses), and relative magnitudea [between brackets, %] for intra-ring density traits estimated at year 24 from progeny trials in the mixed and boreal forests

From: Rapid assessment of wood traits for large-scale breeding selection in Picea mariana [Mill.] B.S.P.

Vegetation subzone

Mixed forest

Boreal forest

Parameter

EWD res

LWD res

IDV res

LWP res

EWD res

LWD res

IDV res

LWP res

\( {\widehat{\sigma}}_F^2 \)

1.30b

1.50b

0

4.57E-05

0.99b

1.14

0

0

(0.62)

(0.52)

 

(3.97E-05)

(0.58)

(0.76)

  

[4.7]

[5.6]

[0]

[1.4]

[2.9]

[3.2]

[0]

[0]

\( {\widehat{\sigma}}_{S\ast F}^2 \)

0.61

0

0.007

0

0

0.31

0.025b

0

(0.61)

 

(0.012)

  

(0.88)

(0.013)

 

[2.2]

[0]

[0.9]

[0]

[0]

[0.9]

[4.2]

[0]

\( {\widehat{\sigma}}_{\varepsilon}^2 \)

26.00b

25.58b

0.815b

0.0033b

33.63b

34.08b

0.565b

0.0060b

(1.14)

(1.09)

(0.036)

(0.0001)

(1.60)

(1.68)

(0.028)

(0.0003)

[93.1]

[94.4]

[99.1]

[98.6]

[97.1]

[95.9]

[95.8]

[100]

\( {\widehat{h}}_{ind}^2 \)

0.19

0.22

0

0.05

0.11

0.13

0

0

(0.09)

(0.07)

 

(0.05)

(0.07)

(0.08)

  

\( {\widehat{h}}_{fam}^2 \)

0.44

0.54

0

0.21

0.31

0.32

0

0

(0.14)

(0.09)

 

(0.15)

(0.13)

(0.17)

  

\( {\widehat{r}}_B \)

0.68b

1b

0

1b

1b

0.79

0

.

(0.28)

(0)

 

(0)

(0)

(0.54)

  

\( {\widehat{G}}_{1\%} \)

13.42

12.58

0

1.76

7.22

7.82

0

0

  1. EWD res Resistograph® earlywood density, LWD res Res. latewood density, IDV res Res. intra-ring density variation, LWP res Res. latewood proportion
  2. aPercentage of each estimated variance component to total (phenotypic) variance \( \left({\widehat{\sigma}}_p^2={\widehat{\sigma}}_F^2+{\widehat{\sigma}}_{S\ast F}^2+{\widehat{\sigma}}_{\varepsilon}^2\right) \).
  3. bSignificantly different from 0 (for \( {\widehat{r}}_B \)) or significantly positive (for variance estimates) at the 5% significance level. See Table 2 for parameter definitions.