Table 3 Variance components (expressed as % of total variance) of the rootstock, scion and their interaction based on the analysis of 4 groups of rootstock/scion combinations: (a) clonal vigour classes (V/V, V/v, v/V and v/v) and (b) flowering capacity (F/F, F/f, f/F and f/f) (trial 1; age 18 for all traits except HT: age 10) (see Table 2 for explanation of codes)

(a) Vigour

Height

Girth

Heartwood radius

Heartwood proportion

Ring width

Earlywood width

Latewood width

Latewood proportion

Pilodyn

Density

Earlywood density

Latewood density

HT

C

HW

%HW

RW

EW

LW

%LW

Pil

De

DEW

DLW

Rootstock

0.37 ns

1.97*

1.12*

0.004 ns

1.40*

0.97 ns

1.23*

0.01 ns

0.01 ns

0.64 ns

0.16 ns

0.33 ns

Scion

12.29***

4.22***

6.81***

3.40***

2.55**

1.01 ns

6.67***

4.87***

13.80***

6.98***

1.81*

4.39***

Rootst. × scion

0.01 ns

0.01 ns

0.01 ns

0.01 ns

0.01 ns

0.01 ns

0.01 ns

0.015 ns

0.01 ns

0.01 ns

0.01 ns

0.01 ns

Residual

87.33

93.80

92.06

96.59

96.04

98.02

92.10

95.12

86.18

92.38

98.03

95.26

(b) Flowering capacity

Height

Girth

Heartwood radius

Heartwood proportion

Ring width

Earlywood width

Latewood width

Latewood proportion

Pilodyn

Density

Earlywood density

Latewood density

HT

C

HW

%HW

RW

EW

LW

%LW

Pil

De

DEW

DLW

Rootstock

0.83 ns

0.73 ns

1.20*

0.00 ns

0.45 ns

0.48 ns

0.01 ns

0.01 ns

2.37**

0.98 ns

0.72 ns

1.14 ns

Scion

3.31**

0.67 ns

0.34 ns

0.00 ns

1.46*

0.00 ns

12.26***

10.37***

0.62 ns

6.77***

0.28 ns

2.10 ns

Rootst. × scion

0.26 ns

0.01 ns

0.01 ns

0.00 ns

0.01 ns

0.00 ns

0.01 ns

0.01 ns

0.01 ns

0.01 ns

0.01 ns

0.01 ns

Residual

95.61

98.59

98.45

100.00 ns

98.08

99.51

87.72

89.62

97.00

92.24

99.0

96.75