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