Phenotypic Diversity of Date Palm Cultivars (Phoenix dactylifera L.) from Sudan Estimated by Vegetative and Fruit Characteristics

Table 6

Eigenvalues, eigenvector, and proportion of the qualitative variance explained for the three principal components.

Principal component	Characters	PC1	PC2	PC3
Eigenvectors	LC	0.573	−0.317	0.060
	MC	0.537	−0.439	−0.066
	FC	0.187	0.424	0.538
	FS	0.459	0.278	0.372
	FLC	−0.283	−0.198	0.679
	FT	0.241	0.641	−0.323
Eigenvalue		06.027	1.711	1.218
Variability (%)		60.273	17.107	12.183
Cumulative %		60.273	77.38	89.563