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

Table 3

Parameters related to genetic variability showing high influence of environment to most of the traits throughout both the vegetative and reproductive phases.

Genetic parameters	Mutant plant height (cm)	Main branches (number)	Secondary branches (number)	Days for 50% flowering	Days for pod initiation	Days for 50% pod maturity	Pods/mutant plant	Root length (cm)	Seeds/pod	Seeds/mutant plant	Biomass/mutant plant (g)	100 seed weight (g)	Harvest index (%)	Grain yield/mutant plant (g)
Heritability (%)	40.133	20.383	72.475	16.04	26.397	40.155	42.762	17.61	33.344	24.311	18.042	71.391	56.285	20.459
Genotypic coefficient of variations (GCV)	20.046	16.569	60.323	5.637	2.503	2.76	21.868	12.584	20.887	17.382	24.301	21.431	10.958	19.507
Phenotypic coefficient of variations (PCV)	31.642	36.699	70.858	14.075	4.872	4.355	33.441	29.988	36.171	35.253	57.21	25.364	14.607	43.127
Genetic advance	3.607	0.217	2.067	2.362	1.846	3.092	1.354	0.511	0.367	1.036	0.03	0.333	6.321	0.009
Genetic advance as % means	26.16	15.409	105.79	4.651	2.649	3.602	29.458	10.879	24.845	17.655	21.263	37.301	16.936	18.176