Growth and Productivity Assessment of Short-Duration Rice (Oryza sativa L. and Upland NERICA) Genotypes in Semiarid North-Central Namibia

Table 5

Upper triangular Pearson’s product-moment correlation matrix for growth characters, yield components, and yield.

Character	Days to 50% heading	Plant height	Total tillers	Shoot biomass	Total panicles	1000-grain weight	Harvest index	Grain yield
Days to heading	—	−0.127	0.309	0.311	0.242	−0.368	−0.095	0.370
Plant height		—	−0.531	−0.368	−0.347	0.633	0.157	−0.161
Total tillers			—	0.304	0.935	−0.640	0.111	0.663
Shoot biomass				—	0.099	−0.298	−0.726	0.172
Total panicles					—	−0.514	0.301	0.719
1000-grain weight						—	−0.026	−0.383
Harvest index							—	0.465
Grain yield								—

^∗∗∗ and ^∗∗ refer significant difference at and .