Such data may be used to develop breeding value estimates based on all trait-linked markers, in order to identify key parental lines for targeted introgression programs.
For the first analysis, we calculated a composite FA-index for each individual based on all traits.
Analysis of functional diversity indices based on all measured traits showed a decrease of functional divergence due to mowing (indicating convergence of traits) and no response of functional richness, evenness and functional dispersion.
However, at a width of 250 km, the phenotypic cline was significantly narrower than the mean cline width based on all three traits (Table 3).
To test the effects of salinity and population on the overall fitness of barnacles (based on all phenotypic traits measured in this study), PERMANOVA (two-factorial, orthogonal permutational MANOVA) was applied, using Euclidian distance matrices with 9999 permutations.
However, the center of the cline describing the distributions of co-dominant multilocus genotypes was situated 20 km closer to the southern terminus of the transect than the centers of the unconstrained phenotypic and mtDNA haplotype clines, and 10 km closer to the southern terminus than the mean cline center based on all three traits (P = 0.06; Table 3).
Third is identity based on a trait that is perceived to be involuntary, and often thought to be inherited.
The identification of variants was based on one trait and for variants in genes of one specific molecular pathway.
Based on all available knowledge for the traits related to yield and drought tolerance, randomly dispersed QTL, trans-genes or both can be accumulated into elite genotypes through "breeding by design" [ 15, 78].
Analyses of growth traits were based on all trees in a treatment, rather than just the sample selected for wood properties assessment.
The selection was based on one quantitative trait assumed to be polygenic (female fecundity (Fec).).
