Genetic Variability and Association of Traits in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Genotypes in Gechi District, South West Ethiopia

Table 8

Phenotypic path coefficients of direct (diagonal) and indirect (off-diagonal) effects of twelve traits of bread wheat genotypes tested in Gechi during 2019/2020.

Traits	PH	SL	GFP	NsPS	NKPS	TSW	BMY	HI	rp	value
PH	0.05	−0.02	0.00	0.01	−0.01	0.04	0.39	−0.03	0.43	≤ 0.01
SL	0.03	−0.03	0.01	0.02	−0.02	0.04	0.28	−0.03	0.3	≤ 0.01
GFP	0.01	−0.01	0.03	0.03	−0.03	0.01	0.18	0.00	0.22	≤ 0.05
NsPS	0.00	−0.01	0.01	0.09	−0.06	0.02	0.30	−0.08	0.27	≤ 0.01
NKPS	0.01	−0.01	0.01	0.06	−0.09	0.02	0.25	−0.03	0.22	≤ 0.05
TSW	0.03	−0.02	0.00	0.03	−0.03	0.07	0.48	−0.09	0.47	≤ 0.01
BMY	0.02	−0.01	0.00	0.03	−0.03	0.04	0.77	−0.17	0.66	≤ 0.01
HI	0.00	0.00	0.00	−0.01	0.00	−0.01	−0.19	0.72	0.51	≤ 0.01
Residual = 0.0759

GFP = grain filling period, PH = plant height (cm), SL = spike length(cm), NKPS = number grain per spike, NsPS = number of spikelet per spike, TSW = thousand seed weight(g), BMY = biomass yield, HI = harvest index, , indicate significance at the 0.05 and 0.01 probability levels, respectively, rg = phenotypic correlation coefficients.