Effect of Acute Gamma Irradiation on Curcuma alismatifolia Varieties and Detection of DNA Polymorphism through SSR Marker

Table 10

Eigenvectors, eigenvalues, and proportions of variability for three principle components among 14 characters for 44 C. alismatifolia.

Variable	PC1	PC2	PC3
Number of new shoot	0.270	−0.076	−0.173
Leaf length	0.269	−0.305	0.033
Leaf width	0.096	−0.455	0.430
Leaf number	0.210	0.285	0.490
Days to visible bud	0.199	0.462	0.181
Plant height	0.321	0.027	−0.071
Inflorescence length	0.318	0.166	−0.040
Days to anthesis	0.205	0.460	0.148
Days to senescence	0.342	0.017	−0.131
Number of true flower	0.323	0.029	−0.238
Number of pink bracts	0.266	−0.028	−0.546
Rhizome size	0.302	−0.101	0.147
Number of new rhizome	0.250	−0.293	0.028
Number of storage roots	0.264	−0.247	0.298
Eigenvalue	7.877	2.694	1.032
Proportion	56.264	19.246	7.371
Cumulative	56.264	75.511	82.882