Research Article
Screening of Pearl Millet F1 Hybrids for Heat Tolerance at Early Seedling Stage
Table 6
Pooled correlation coefficient among various characters in three environments.
| Characters | Germination | Rate of emergence | STI | SSTI | Leaves/ seedling | Seedling height | Fresh weight | Dry weight | MTS | Panicle emergence | Effective tillers/plant | Plant height | Ear length | Ear weight/plant | Dry fodder yield/plant | Grain yield/plant | Total biological yield/plant |
| Germination | 1.000 | 0.357** | 0.353** | 0.590** | 0.230 | 0.373** | 0.293* | 0.260 | 0.276* | −0.135 | −0.478** | 0.326* | −0.069 | −0.104 | −0.190 | −0.145 | −0.167 | Rate of emergence | | 1.000 | 0.233 | 0.351** | 0.605** | 0.585** | 0.551** | 0.524** | 0.139 | −0.593** | 0.032 | 0.517** | 0.217 | 0.388** | 0.361** | 0.348** | 0.377** | STI | | | 1.000 | 0.837** | 0.241 | 0.129 | 0.081 | 0.048 | 0.890** | −0.215 | −0.211 | 0.030 | −0.007 | −0.043 | −0.101 | −0.111 | −0.084 | SSTI | | | | 1.000 | 0.233 | 0.264 | 0.183 | 0.140 | 0.745** | −0.247 | −0.268* | 0.184 | −0.017 | −0.066 | −0.129 | −0.144 | −0.112 | Number of leaves | | | | | 1.000 | 0.683** | 0.633** | 0.604** | 0.176 | −0.474** | 0.109 | 0.576** | 0.496** | 0.641** | 0.607** | 0.630** | 0.630** | Seedling height | | | | | | 1.000 | 0.703** | 0.663** | 0.031 | −0.493** | −0.115 | 0.735** | 0.360** | 0.526** | 0.520** | 0.515** | 0.532** | Fresh weight | | | | | | | 1.000 | 0.957** | −0.016 | 0.425** | −0.082 | 0.661** | 0.351** | 0.581** | 0.496** | 0.576** | 0.533** | Dry weight | | | | | | | | 1.000 | −0.033 | −0.428** | −0.016 | 0.634** | 0.354** | 0.620** | 0.509** | 0.614** | 0.554** | MTS | | | | | | | | | 1.000 | −0.40 | −0.177 | −0.037 | 0.015 | −0.074 | −0.138 | −0.131 | −0.120 | Panicle emergence | | | | | | | | | | 1.000 | −0.150 | −0.269* | 0.022 | −0.329* | −0.337* | −0.280* | −0.341* | Effective tillers/plant | | | | | | | | | | | 1.000 | −0.012 | 0.170 | 0.366** | 0.405** | 0.323* | 0.401** | Plant height | | | | | | | | | | | | 1.000 | 0.650** | 0.603** | 0.596** | 0.619** | 0.610** | Ear length | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1.000 | 0.608** | 0.671** | 0.648** | 0.664** | Ear weight/plant | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1.000 | 0.910** | 0.984** | 0.957** | Dry fodder yield/plant | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1.000 | 0.907** | 0.991** | Grain yield/plant | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1.000 | 0.950** | Total biological yield/plant | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1.000 |
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Significant at = 0.05. Significant at = 0.01.
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