Research Article
Evaluation of Morphological and Molecular Diversity among South Asian Germplasms of Cucumis sativus and Cucumis melo
Table 6
Eight quantitative characters contribution to three principle components.
| Quantitative character | PC1 | PC2 | PC3 |
| No. of primary branches | 0.041 | 0.027 | 0.457 | Internodal length | 0.086 | 0.046 | 0.422 | Leaf petiole length | −0.047 | −0.001 | 0.452 | Leaf length | 0.053 | 0.016 | 0.385 | Leaf width | 0.017 | −0.029 | 0.487 | Peduncle length | −0.008 | 0.068 | −0.135 | Fruit length | 0.935 | 0.329 | −0.065 | Fruit girth | −0.332 | 0.939 | 0.007 |
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