Landraces of snake melon, an ancient Middle Eastern crop, reveal extensive morphological and DNA diversity for potential genetic improvement

Table 4 Statistically significant correlations between population means, coefficient of variation (CV) of quantitative traits, or genetic variation, and long-term climatic variables, determined by random forest feature selection and Spearman correlation

Trait	Env. variable	Rho	p Value
TotalYield CV	tmax4	−0.4976	0.01567
Early TotalYield CV	tmax4	−0.5902	0.00302
Early TotalYield Mean	eva3	0.43873	0.03745
Vigor Mean	tmean3	−0.4917	0.01717
Female Fl. Date Mean	prec2	−0.4042	0.05572
Late Vigor Mean	tmin6	0.71803	0.00011
uHe	prec3	0.54437	0.00724

Tmax4, temperature maximum in April; eva3 – evaporation in March; tmean3, tmean6 – temperature minimum in March and June, respectively; prec2, prec3 – precipitation in February and March, respectively

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