Positive influence of the elite alleles of 11 significantly associated loci on grain length (GL, mm) and grain width (GW, mm) in the irrigated and fertilised (IF), rainfed (RF), reduced nitrogen (RN), and reduced phosphorus (RP) environments in the 08/09 wheat crop cycle in Hengshui (HS).

1For the diversity arrays technology (DArT) locus, allele 1 was elite. For the microsatellite locus, the allele labelled with the specific fragment size (bp) was elite; “n” denotes the number of varieties carrying the given allele;
2Statistical comparison was made between the averaged measurements of the two allele types. The asterisk and double asterisks indicate P≤0.05 (significant) or 0.01 (highly significant); Statistically significant comparisons are underlined.