Research Article
Phenotypic Diversity of Date Palm Cultivars (Phoenix dactylifera L.) from Sudan Estimated by Vegetative and Fruit Characteristics
Table 5
Eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and proportion of the quantitative variance explained for the three principal components.
| Principal component | Characters | PC1 | PC2 | PC3 |
| Eigenvectors | FL | 0.374 | 0.281 | 0.098 | LW | 0.373 | −0.231 | −0.104 | TL | 0.367 | 0.161 | 0.043 | PL | 0.372 | 0.148 | −0.209 | PW | 0.328 | −0.432 | 0.152 | SL | 0.125 | 0.340 | 0.625 | STL | 0.188 | −0.441 | −0.375 | FRL | −0.207 | 0.463 | −0.512 | FRW | 0.333 | 0.314 | −0.340 | PT | 0.369 | 0.109 | 0.038 |
| Eigenvalue | | 06.027 | 1.711 | 1.218 | Variability (%) | | 60.273 | 17.107 | 12.183 | Cumulative % | | 60.273 | 77.38 | 89.563 |
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