Table 1.
Description of leaf sizes for the 22 white clover populations evaluated in the experiment.
Figure 1.
Mean monthly maximum and minimum temperatures (°C) and total monthly rainfall (mm) during the trial period from November 2003 to March 2004, at Palmerston North in New Zealand.
Figure 2.
Quercetin glycoside accumulation in the leaves of 22 white clover populations.
Table 2.
Means, ranges, variance components (σ2g) with associated standard errors (±SE), and line mean repeatability (R) for traits measured in 22 white clover populations.
Figure 3.
Box plots showing variation among the 22 white clover populations.
(A) quercetin accumulation and (B) shoot weight. The top and bottom two populations for trait expression are indicated. B. line 1, Breeding Line 1. Mean (----).
Figure 4.
Biplot displaying component vectors I and II based on standardized BLUP values for eight morphological and biochemical traits, measured in 22 white clover populations.
The symbols represent the five population groups generated from cluster analysis. The directional vectors represent the traits F, flavonols; K, kaempferol; LW, leaf width; Q, quercetin; Q:K, quercetin:kaempferol ratio; RSR, root:shoot ratio; SW, shoot weight; TRD, tap root diameter.
Table 3.
Within-group population means for each trait based on the five clusters generated from cluster analysis of the 22 white clover population × eight trait BLUP adjusted mean matrix.