Allelic effects (number of days) of gene-based terms included in the best-fit model for winter wheat heading date in each of nine environments, and the proportion of variability (R2) in heading date explained by all terms in each model.

The environments are described in Table 1. The model terms were fit separately for each environment. The intercept (Int) describes the number of days from 1 January to heading in each environment before the allelic effects are applied. The allelic effect (number of days) at each locus is added to the Int value.