New Cultivars Derived from Crosses between Commercial Cultivar and a Wild Population of Papaya Rescued at Its Center of Origin
Table 2
Correlation matrixes obtained from the comparison of seven morphological traits measured at F1 (a) and F2 (b) progenies, resulting from the intraspecific cross L7 M22.
(a) Progeny F1
PH
HFF
SD
PL
NFLN
NFN
NFP
PH
1.0000
HFF
0.3299
1.0000
SD
0.3527
0.2675
1.0000
PL
0.1097
0.1885
0.4705
1.0000
NFLN
0.2100
−0.2848
0.2989
0.3181
1.0000
NFN
0.1926
−0.3350
0.3651
−0.0460
0.7178
1.0000
NFP
0.3473
−0.1397
0.5309
0.1761
0.7347
0.7720
1.0000
(b) Progeny F2
PH
HFF
SD
PL
NFLN
NFN
NFP
PH
1.0000
HFF
0.4146
1.0000
SD
0.3837
0.4759
1.0000
PL
0.4795
0.4031
0.5055
1.0000
NFLN
0.3557
0.4361
0.4603
0.4051
1.0000
NFN
0.2728
0.3654
0.3295
0.3215
0.8622
1.0000
NFP
0.4116
0.2865
0.5690
0.3237
0.7877
0.8055
1.0000
PH: plant height, HFF: height of first fruit, SD: stem diameter, PL: length of petiole, NFLN: number of flowers per node, NFN: number of fruits per node, NFP: number of fruits per plant, and F1 and F2: F1 and F2 progenies.
