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

Table 9

Eigenvectors and eigenvalues of five principal components (PCs) for 16 traits of bread wheat genotypes tested in Gechi during 2019/2020.

Traits	Eigenvectors
	PC1	PC2	PC3	PC4	PC5
DH	0.45	−0.63	−0.22	0.30	0.03
DM	0.54	−0.72	0.04	0.29	0.28
GFP	0.44	−0.53	0.25	0.18	0.47
NTPP	0.68	0.20	−0.42	0.36	−0.19
NFPP	0.65	0.12	−0.39	0.39	−0.34
PH	0.64	0.47	−0.18	0.10	0.25
SL	0.65	0.21	−0.07	−0.07	0.23
AL	0.02	0.18	−0.47	0.01	0.38
NGPs	0.25	0.22	0.30	0.50	−0.47
NKPS	0.61	−0.34	0.27	−0.30	−0.29
NsPS	0.63	−0.37	0.29	−0.27	−0.29
YPP	0.82	0.05	0.10	−0.41	−0.14
TSW	0.75	0.38	−0.01	−0.36	0.22
BMY	0.82	0.23	0.08	−0.07	0.05
HI	−0.28	0.30	0.70	0.37	0.17
GY	0.53	0.40	0.60	0.21	0.18
Eigenvalue	5.51	2.31	1.83	1.41	1.22
% Of total variance explained	34.41	14.46	11.42	8.79	7.63
Cumulative % of total variance explained	34.41	48.9	60.3	69.1	76.7