Selection Criteria for Improving Yield in Chili (Capsicum annuum)

Table 5

Phenotypic path coefficient analysis for fruit yield per plant.

Traits	DFP	HD	FFM	HFM	PH	NPB	TEFW	TDFW	FL	FW	NSF	WSF	NFP	HSW	FYP
DFP	2.71	−0.76	0.03	−2.05	−0.01	0.01	−0.38	−0.34	0.31	0.05	0.07	0.12	0.12	−0.15
HD	−0.95	2.18	−0.02	−1.11	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.07	−0.12	0.00	−0.01	−0.06	0.01	0.03
FFM	2.06	−0.74	0.05	−1.42	0.00	0.01	−0.24	−0.19	0.23	0.03	0.11	0.11	0.10	−0.08
HFM	1.95	0.85	0.02	−2.84	−0.01	0.01	−0.36	−0.31	0.24	0.05	0.07	0.07	0.13	−0.12
PH	1.00	−0.11	0.01	−0.91	−0.02	0.00	−0.32	−0.27	0.20	0.04	0.05	0.03	0.05	−0.05
NPB	1.11	−0.28	0.02	−0.80	0.00	0.03	−0.06	−0.04	0.03	0.01	0.00	0.06	0.07	−0.10
TEFW	−1.73	0.09	−0.02	1.73	0.01	0.00	0.59	0.48	−0.43	−0.07	−0.01	−0.07	−0.09	0.19
TDFW	−1.71	0.26	−0.02	1.59	0.01	0.00	0.52	0.55	−0.42	−0.07	−0.07	−0.13	−0.11	0.26	0.67
FL	−1.76	0.52	−0.02	1.45	0.01	0.00	0.53	0.48	−0.48	−0.06	−0.04	−0.10	−0.09	0.19	0.62
FW	−1.73	−0.09	−0.02	1.93	0.01	−0.01	0.55	0.49	−0.38	−0.07	−0.04	−0.08	−0.12	0.22	0.66
NSF	−0.68	0.07	−0.02	0.71	0.00	0.00	0.03	0.15	−0.07	−0.01	−0.28	−0.18	−0.11	0.12
WSF	−1.27	0.54	−0.02	0.83	0.00	−0.01	0.16	0.27	−0.18	−0.02	−0.20	−0.26	−0.12	0.17	−0.11
NFP	1.79	0.13	0.02	−1.99	−0.01	0.01	−0.29	−0.32	0.24	0.05	0.17	0.16	0.19	−0.17
HSW	−1.08	0.20	−0.01	0.94	0.00	−0.01	0.30	0.38	−0.24	−0.04	−0.09	−0.12	−0.08	0.38	0.52

Residual effects 0.194, direct effects are shown in main diagonal (bold); DFP: days to first picking, HD: harvest duration, FFM: first fruit maturity, HFM: hundred per cent fruit maturity, PH: plant height (cm), NPB: number of primary branches, TEFW: ten edible fruit weight at green stage (g), TDFW: ten dry fruit weight (g), FL: fruit length at green edible stage (cm), FW: fruit width at green edible stage (cm), NSF: number of seeds per fruit, WSF: weight of seeds per fruit (g), NFP: number of fruits per plant, HSW: hundred-seed weight (g), and FYP: fruit yield per plant at green edible stage (g).
Significant at 1% level of significance.