Research Article
Biochemical Charcterization of Some Taro (Colocasia esculenta L. Schott) Germplasm in Ghana
Table 4
Principal component analysis of the biochemical traits of the 18 taro genotypes.
| Characters | PC1 | PC2 | PC3 | PC4 | PC5 |
| Ash | −0.01259 | 0.10252 | −0.21361 | −0.59813 | −0.30401 | Carbohydrate | −0.7298 | −0.4231 | 0.29514 | 0.12024 | −0.04112 | Ca | −0.00004 | −0.02081 | −0.03371 | −0.22475 | 0.23701 | Cu | 0.01006 | 0.1039 | −0.03500 | −0.23555 | 0.05148 | Energy | 0.03721 | 0.20458 | 0.49191 | 0.03351 | 0.14858 | Fat | 0.06055 | 0.64478 | 0.44460 | 0.05456 | 0.09063 | Fibre | −0.00723 | 0.23408 | −0.55669 | 0.58033 | 0.00898 | Fe | −0.01452 | −0.11194 | −0.10452 | −0.09979 | 0.79014 | K | −0.00429 | 0.02118 | −0.02469 | −0.24281 | −0.26709 | Moisture | 0.00946 | −0.03618 | −0.21210 | −0.27807 | 0.29597 | Mg | 0.00023 | −0.01048 | 0.00420 | −0.13447 | 0.17412 | P | −0.00022 | −0.0018 | −0.02077 | 0.04319 | −0.0041 | Protein | 0.67949 | −0.52199 | 0.24163 | 0.12127 | −0.05564 |
| Variation (%) | 96.72 | 2.43 | 0.38 | 0.21 | 0.12 |
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