Performance Evaluation of Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Genotypes for Yield and Related Traits at Areka, Southern Ethiopia

Table 4

Genotypic (above diagonal) and phenotypic (below diagonal) correlation coefficients for agronomic traits of common bean genotypes.

	SD	LA	LAI	BY	PPP	SPP	HSW	HI	GY	DF	DM
SD		0.09^NS	0.84	0.93	0.49	0.55	0.01^NS	−0.24^NS	0.84	0.99	0.79
LA	0.15^NS		0.69	0.18^NS	−0.58	−0.82	0.99	0.36	0.27^NS	0.11^NS	0.25^NS
LAI	0.54	0.72		0.80	0.21^NS	0.09^NS	0.38	0.08^NS	0.74	0.94	0.81
BY	0.82	0.24^NS	0.56		0.61	0.38	0.14^NS	−0.08^NS	0.96	0.78	0.61
PPP	0.39	−0.33	0.08^NS	0.53		0.74	−0.66	0.08^NS	0.56	0.67	0.51
SPP	0.45	−0.33	0.07^NS	0.32	0.59		−0.74	−0.13^NS	0.34	0.63	0.58
HSW	0.07^NS	0.70	0.37	0.23^NS	−0.59	−0.62		0.21^NS	0.16^NS	−0.27^NS	−0.21^NS
HI	−0.13^NS	0.18^NS	0.07^NS	−0.06^NS	0.10^NS	−0.08^NS	0.13^NS		0.23^NS	0.07^NS	0.09^NS
GY	0.74	0.29^NS	0.52	0.93	0.49	0.28^NS	0.23^NS	0.19^NS		0.73	0.59
DF	0.72	0.19^NS	0.58	0.57	0.44	0.44	−0.16^NS	0.02^NS	0.58		0.99
DM	0.71	0.21^NS	0.59	0.54	0.47	0.49	−0.17^NS	0.09^NS	0.55	0.92

^∗indicates significant differences at 5% level and “ns” indicates nonsignificance.