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Table 4 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 modulus of elasticity 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

V fak

MoE fak+pil

V fak

MoE fak+pil

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

0.008b

0.040b

0.008b

0.06b

(0.002)

(0.013)

(0.002)

(0.02)

[13.3]

[9.0]

[12.0]

[9.1]

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

0.0003

0.010

0

0

(0.0011)

(0.009)

  

[0.5]

[2.3]

[0]

[0]

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

0.054b

0.393

0.058b

0.60b

(0.002)

(0.017)

(0.002)

(0.03)

[86.2]

[88.7]

[88.0]

[90.9]

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

0.53

0.36

0.48

0.37

(0.12)

(0.11)

(0.11)

(0.09)

\( {\widehat{h}}_{f\; am}^2 \)

0.74

0.61

0.73

0.66

(0.07)

(0.10)

(0.05)

(0.06)

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

0.97b

0.80b

1b

1b

(0.12)

(0.18)

(0)

(0)

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

12.82

20.17

11.38

19.64

  1. V fak Fakopp acoustic velocity, MoE fak+pil Fakopp and Pilodyn-derived modulus of elasticity
  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.