Variation and Relationships among Agronomic Traits in Durum Wheat [Triticum turgidum (L.) Thell. ssp. turgidum conv. durum (Desf.) MacKey] under South Mediterranean Growth Conditions: Stepwise and Path Analyses

Table 4

Arithmetic mean, minimum and maximum values, range, least significant difference, phenotypic and genotypic coefficients of variation, phenotypic and genotypic variances, broad-sense heritability, and expected response to selection for 10 morphological and agronomic traits of 56 durum wheat genotypes evaluated in 2014-2015.

Traits	Mean	Min	Max	Range	LSD5%	CVp (%)	CVg (%)				RS (%)
DHE	121.48	117.50	125.00	7.50	1.60	1.78	1.65	4.68	4.03	86.29	3.17
BIO	171.64	81.00	313.50	232.50	47.37	24.11	19.79	1712.32	1153.47	67.36	33.45
SN	50.06	31.00	86.00	55.00	16.45	23.44	16.74	137.65	70.22	51.02	24.63
GY	60.72	37.35	108.15	70.80	22.90	26.19	18.21	252.86	122.25	48.35	26.08
Yeco	94.00	59.33	169.76	110.43	24.42	23.24	19.29	477.15	328.68	68.88	32.97
PHT	56.07	39.50	75.75	36.25	2.62	13.44	13.24	56.77	55.07	96.99	26.85
STW	110.92	27.75	205.35	177.60	45.99	28.75	19.96	1016.86	490.19	48.21	28.55
HI	35.94	26.57	65.74	39.18	4.91	17.19	14.36	38.17	26.62	69.74	24.70
CHL	638.60	493.50	830.50	337.00	49.04	10.46	9.73	4460.94	3862.14	86.58	18.65
CT	23.57	21.45	27.80	6.35	1.19	8.35	7.96	3.87	3.52	90.84	15.62

DHE = days to head, BIO = aboveground biomass, SN = spike number, GY = grain yield, Y_eco = economical yield, PHT = plant height, STW = straw yield, HI = harvest index, CHL = chlorophyll content, and CT = canopy temperature.