Ear erectness
For ear erectness, the average score was 1.35 ± 0.56 across
the F2 population. Genome scans of the full data revealed
five QTL affecting ear erectness (Table 2). The genome-wide
significance thresholds were 9.54, 10.12 and 10.55 at the
1% level for SSC1, SSC5 and SSC7 respectively and 8.27
and 8.60 at the 5% level for SSC9 and SSC12 respectively.