Variability in Prolificacy, Total Carotenoids, Lutein, and Zeaxanthin of Yellow Small-Ear Waxy Corn Germplasm

Table 5

Pearson’s correlation coefficients between total carotenoids and carotenoids fractions of small-ear waxy corn genotypes.

	Lutein	Zeaxanthin	Beta-carotene (ns)
Zeaxanthin	0.39
Beta-carotene	0.03^ns	0.11^ns
Total carotenoids	0.69	0.81	0.21

ns: not significant; significant at ; significant at .