Table 4: Contribution of the quantitative traits to each principal component (%) for the genetic variability of 321 lowland rice genotypes and the corresponding squared cosines directing which trait is well linked with each principal component.
Quantitative traits |
Contribution in % (Squared cosine) |
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PC1 |
PC2 |
PC3 |
|
DH |
25.76(0.67) |
1.40(0.03) |
15.12(0.16) |
DM |
22.33(0.58) |
0.80(0.01) |
20.48(0.22) |
PH |
20.72(0.54) |
6.73(0.12) |
9.49(0.10) |
PL |
6.30(0.16) |
24.73(0.45) |
13.44(0.15) |
NFG |
1.64(0.04) |
42.26(0.77) |
0.65(0.01) |
NUFG |
0.44(0.01) |
23.81(.44) |
33.37(0.36) |
TSW |
22.81(0.59) |
0.27(0.01) |
7.45(0.38) |
Where: DH: Days to Heading; DM: Days to Maturity; PH: Plant Height; PL: Panicle Length; NFG: Number of Filled Grains; NUFG: Number of Unfilled Grains; TSW: 1000 Seed Weight; PC: Principal Component; %: Percentage