Morphological Characterization and Assessment of Genetic Variability, Character Association, and Divergence in Soybean Mutants

Table 6

Genotypic (G) and phenotypic (P) correlation coefficients among nine morphological traits in 31 soybean genotypes.

Characters		Days to maturity	Plant height	Branches per; plant (number)	Pods per plant (number)	Seeds per pod (number)	100-seed wt (g)	Seed yield per; plant (g)	Seed yield (kg per ha)
Days to flowering	G	0.931**	0.659**	0.494**	0.385*	0.279	−0.117	0.646**	0.627**
	P	0.966**	0.646**	0.485**	0.381*	0.301	−0.090	0.620**	0.627**
Days to maturity	G		0.622**	0.388*	0.286	0.119	−0.004	0.667**	0.629**
	P		0.611**	0.381*	0.290	0.158	0.032	0.634**	0.626**
Plant; height	G			0.776**	0.824**	0.725**	−0.621**	0.589**	0.677**
	P			0.771**	0.805**	0.696**	−0.615**	0.570**	0.668**
Branches per plant (number)	G				0.801**	0.796**	−0.705**	0.387*	0.457**
	P				0.796**	0.763**	−0.700**	0.380*	0.458**
Pods per; plant (number)	G					0.864**	−0.774**	0.518**	0.640**
	P					0.821**	−0.763**	0.508**	0.633**
Seeds per; pod (number)	G						−0.867**	0.398*	0.509**
	P						−0.818**	0.378*	0.484**
100-seed; wt (g)	G							0.012	−0.129
	P							0.004	−0.120
Yield per; plant (g)	G								0.986**
	P								0.962**

** and * indicate significance at 1% and 5% level of probability, respectively.