Varieties			Biancoperla		GRB			Italien			Narguilé		Sponcio		Hybrid
Traits			Hs mean (1)	Anova p-value (2)		Hs mean	Anova p-value		Hs mean	Anova p-value	Hs mean	Anova p-value	Hs mean	Anova p-value	Hs
Phenology		Male flowering	0.68	^***		0.71	^*		0.75	^***	0.73	^***	0.71	.	0.56
Phenology		Female flowlering	0.74	^***		0.74	^*		0.76	^***	0.76	^**	0.67	NS	0.51
Plant		Silk colour	0.67	NS		0.59	NS		0.66	NS	0.70	^**	0.57	NS	0.43
		Plant height	0.77	^**		0.67	NS		0.74	^***	0.73	^***	0.67	NS	0.31
		Ear height	0.76	NS		0.65	.		0.73	^***	0.80	^***	0.71	NS	0.49
		Stem size	0.68	.		0.61	NS		0.68	NS	0.66	NS	0.55	NS	0.31
		Smut	0.04	NS		0.29	NS		0.15	NS	0.28	NS	0.28	NS	0
		Corn borer	0.03	NS		0.09	NS		0.05	NS	0.04	NS	0.08	NS	0
Ear and grain	Qualitative ear traits	Ear shape	0.25	NS		0.29	NS		0.47	NS	0.33	NS	0.19	NS	0.33
		Kernel shape	0.44	NS		0.08	NS		0.54	NS	0.57	NS	0.33	NS	0.37
		Kernel colour	0.00	NS		0.08	NS		0.13	NS	0.11	NS	0.02	NS	0
		Cob colour	0.02	NS		0.00	NS		0.53	NS	0.46	NS	0.02	NS	0
		Kernel row arrangement	0.35	NS		0.31	NS		0.15	NS	0.33	NS	0.23	NS	0.04
	Quantitative traits (mainly yield components)	Number of rows	0.66	^*		0.68	NS		0.71	NS	0.72	NS	0.75	NS	0.60
		Ear length	0.82	^*		0.81	NS		0.82	NS	0.78	^**	0.79	NS	0.73
		Ear mid diameter	0.64	^*		0.77	NS		0.74	NS	0.72	NS	0.64	NS	0.70
		Grain weight 15%	0.74	^***		0.79	NS		0.80	NS	0.74	^*	0.73	NS	0.82
		100 kernel weight 15%	0.67	NS		0.80	^*		0.71	NS	0.63	^*	0.56	NS	0.65
		Kernel number per ear	0.77	^**		0.70	^*		0.76	NS	0.77	NS	0.80	^*	0.75
		Seed moisture	0.63	^***		0.71	NS		0.67	NS	0.62	.	0.49	NS	0.60
	Grain composition	Protein	0.81	NS		0.84	^***		0.72	NS	0.79	.	0.85	^***	0.40
		Starch	0.78	NS		0.79	^**		0.74	NS	0.72	^**	0.73	NS	0.69
		Fat	0.77	NS		0.76	NS		0.80	NS	0.79	NS	0.81	^*	0.69
		Hs grand mean	0.55	NS		0.56	NS		0.60	NS	0.60	NS	0.53	NS	0.43
		Number of traits which evolved (3)		9			6			4		9		3