Understanding Genetic Diversity of Sorghum Using Quantitative Traits

Table 5

Principal components analysis showing the contribution of 9 characters among the sorghum accessions.

Traits	PC1	PC2	PC3
Stem girth	0.396	−0.113	0.486
Leaf breadth	0.477	−0.004	0.146
Leaf length	0.302	−0.353	0.281
Number of leaves per plant	0.381	0.024	−0.083
Number of primary branches per panicle	0.286	−0.158	−0.055
Yield per plant	0.371	0.117	−0.317
Hundred-seed weight	0.377	0.336	−0.256
Panicle width	0.078	−0.602	0.097
Plant height	−0.112	−0.59	−0.426
Eigenvalue	3.753	1.96	0.876
% variance	41.7	21.8	9.7
Cumulative % variance	41.7	63.5	73.2