Evaluation of Fonio (Digitaria exilis) Varieties for Improved Agronomic Traits in the Guinea and Sudan Savannah Agroecological Zones of Ghana

Table 9

Correlation among agro-morphological traits.

Traits	PHM	RL	TNP	PNP	NLP	LA	D50 (%) F	DPHM	GY	1000 GW	BLSC	SKC
PH	1.00
NRP	0.250
RL	−0.29	1.00
TNP	0.62	−0.1 ns	1.00
PNP	0.59	0.09 ns	0.98	1.00
NLP	0.63	0.58	0.46	0.44	1.00
LA	0.7	0.46	0.38	0.64	0.72	1.00
D50 (%) F	0.53	0.78	0.23	0.26	0.74	0.8	1.00
DPHM	0.53	0.78	0.23	0.22	0.74	0.8	1.00	1.00
GY	−0.08 ns	0.35	0.26	0.28	0.19ns	0.27	0.35	0.35	1.00
1000 GW	−0.19 ns	−0.02	−0.12	−0.14	0.05 ns	−0.1 ns	0.12 ns	0.12 ns	0.08 ns	1.00
BLSC	−0.46	0.55	−0.22	−0.21	0.55	0.62	0.76	0.76	0.3	0.08 ns	1.00
SKC	0.002 ns	0.17 ns	0.04 ns	0.05 ns	0.05 ns	0.001 ns	0.09	−0.1 ns	0.03 ns	−0.17 ns	0.16 ns	1.00

Correlation is significant () at (), is significant () at (), and is nonsignificant (ns). D50 (%) F = days to 50% flowering.