High altitude population of Arabidopsis thaliana is more plastic and adaptive under common garden than controlled condition

Table 2 Correlation of traits expressed between the two conditions

	Pearson correlation	P value
Vegetative traits (measured after 5 weeks of germination)
Leaf number	0.776	< 0.0001
Average leaf length (in cm)	0.002	0.989
Average leaf width (in cm)	0.485	0.001
Leaf area (leaf length * leaf width)	− 0.335	0.025
Leaf shape (leaf length/leaf width)	0.782	< 0.0001
Petiole length (in cm)	0.323	0.030
Rosette area (rosette major axis * minor axis)	0.018	0.906
Rosette shape (rosette major axis/rosette minor axis)	0.896	< 0.0001
Flowering time (estimated as number of days from bolting to germination)	0.832	< 0.0001
Reproductive traits (measured after completion of life cycle)
Plant height (in cm)	0.999	< 0.0001
Inflorescence length (in cm)	0.992	< 0.0001
Average silique length (in cm)	0.984	< 0.0001
Average length of pedicel of silique (in cm)	0.741	< 0.0001
Average distance between two siliques (in cm)	0.912	< 0.0001
Number of flowers produced	0.698	< 0.0001
Number of fruits	0.683	< 0.0001
Fertility percentage (estimated as number of fruits/number of flowers * 100)	0.712	< 0.0001

Pearson correlation of all 17 morphological traits expressed between the two growth condition (CG and GH). Significant values are in italics

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