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Table 4 Additive genetic (ra) and residual correlations (re) of color and meat quality traits with their predictions

From: Prediction of meat quality traits in the abattoir using portable near-infrared spectrometers: heritability of predicted traits and genetic correlations with laboratory-measured traits

Traitsa

Vis-NIRS

Micro-NIRS

ra

re

ra

re

L*

1.000 (0.001)

0.871 (0.016)

1.000 (0.001)

0.831 (0.022)

a*

0.958 (0.173)

0.671 (0.029)

0.783 (0.225)

0.646 (0.031)

b*

1.000 (0.001)

0.761 (0.021)

0.930 (0.189)

0.598 (0.025)

C*

1.000 (0.001)

0.703 (0.024)

0.771 (0.228)

0.687 (0.027)

h*

1.000 (0.001)

0.763 (0.057)

0.858 (0.134)

0.756 (0.026)

pH

0.701 (0.164)

0.358 (0.056)

0.448 (0.256)

0.262 (0.028)

PL, %

0.979 (0.085)

0.385 (0.054)

0.879 (0.162)

0.378 (0.045)

CL, %

0.703 (0.168)

0.120 (0.059)

0.248 (0.271)

0.265 (0.058)

WBSF, N

0.805 (0.187)

0.202 (0.055)

0.418 (0.316)

0.271 (0.070)

  1. a L* = lightness; a* = redness; b* = yellowness; C* = chroma; h = hue angle; PL purge losses (%), CL cooking losses (%), WBSF shear force (N)
  2. SE in parentheses