Characterization of Morphological Diversity of Jute Mallow (Corchorus spp.)

Table 6

Eigenvalues, proportion of variance, and morphological traits that contributed to the first five PCs.

Traits	PC1	PC2	PC3	PC4	PC5
Plant height	0.22	0.19	0.28	0.28	−0.02
Leaf length	−0.11	0.09	−0.19	0.60	0.16
Leaf width	−0.19	0.38	−0.09	0.09	−0.10
LW ratio	0.12	−0.28	−0.08	0.48	0.31
Petiole length	0.03	0.39	0.13	−0.17	0.17
50% flowering	0.24	0.27	−0.24	−0.07	0.01
Primary branches	0.30	0.11	0.24	−0.03	0.23
Secondary branches	0.33	−0.19	0.15	0.01	0.00
Plant canopy	−0.08	−0.25	0.44	−0.11	0.06
Flower diameter	−0.32	0.21	0.16	0.07	0.17
Pedicel length	−0.02	0.29	0.18	0.26	0.26
Fruit length	−0.29	−0.00	0.36	0.06	−0.07
Pods per plant	0.38	−0.09	0.02	0.01	0.09
Days to first mature pods	0.23	0.38	−0.04	0.02	0.06
Number of leaves	0.33	0.09	0.22	−0.06	0.03
Seeds per pod	−0.34	0.05	0.22	0.02	0.05
Harvest index	−0.07	0.22	−0.22	−0.39	0.25
Weight of 1000 seeds	−0.09	−0.14	0.15	−0.22	0.66
Biomass yield	0.09	0.17	0.41	0.05	−0.40
Eigenvalues	5.19	3.54	2.24	1.81	1.08
Proportion variance	27.33	18.65	11.81	9.51	5.66
Cumulative variance	27.33	45.98	57.79	67.30	72.97