[Retracted] Principal Component and Path Analysis for Trait Selection Based on the Assessment of Diverse Lentil Populations Developed by Gamma-Irradiated Physical Mutation

Table 1

Eigenvalues for the first five principal components of various Lentil mutant characteristics.

	PC-1	PC-2	PC-3	PC-4	PC-5	PC-6	PC-7	PC-8
Eigenvalue	1.97542	1.75629	1.58303	1.3886	1.2444	1.11867	1.02712	0.85597
% variability explained	14.11013	12.5449	11.30738	9.91859	8.88858	7.99046	7.33658	6.11404
Cumulative variability explained	14.11013	26.65503	37.96241	47.881	56.76958	64.76005	72.09662	78.21066
Characters
Mutant plant height (cm)	0.25048	0.38142	0.23943	0.35319	0.10706	0.23783	0.014	0.05966
Primary branches (number)	0.20003	-0.10371	-0.45645	0.03086	-0.04338	-0.27438	-0.45303	-0.28496
Secondary branches (number)	-0.42991	-0.36133	0.12583	0.21243	-0.12712	0.06455	-0.1351	-0.21038
Days for fifty percent flowering	0.33698	0.2377	-0.19927	-0.04982	-0.20773	-0.12079	-0.03962	-0.24344
Days for pod initiation	0.18892	-0.04746	0.05889	0.1501	-0.30677	0.08208	0.66552	-0.53522
Days for fifty percent pod maturity	-0.22596	0.21722	-0.18955	-0.00637	0.53665	-0.34055	0.12435	-0.43063
Pods/mutant plant	0.17953	-0.42745	-0.36813	0.02671	-0.3105	-0.13369	0.16883	0.26938
Root length (cm)	-0.20586	-0.03981	-0.32296	0.3199	0.24083	-0.27468	0.42932	0.28707
Seeds/pod	-0.09768	-0.29664	0.12013	-0.50335	0.28993	0.0991	0.20353	-0.01967
Seeds/mutant plant	0.05965	0.10157	0.36315	-0.22488	-0.21891	-0.64245	0.14612	0.23137
Biomass/mutant plant (g)	-0.28123	0.18136	-0.43314	-0.23535	-0.17822	0.42124	0.14436	0.06376
100 seed weight (g)	-0.22237	0.53104	-0.20035	-0.23379	-0.22218	-0.04262	0.06298	0.17617
Harvest index (%)	0.28529	-0.06901	-0.00689	-0.52825	0.13598	0.07246	0.05908	-0.13679
Grain yield/mutant plant (g)	0.46312	-0.07071	-0.15954	0.08975	0.39904	0.16212	0.1117	0.27769