Evaluation of Malt Barley (Hordeum distichon L.) Varieties for Yield and Agronomic Traits in South Gondar, Ethiopia

Table 7

Principal Component analysis for yield attributed traits of malt barley.

Traits	Principal components
	1	2	3
GD	0.005	0.116	0.916
FD	−0.352	−0.190	0.755
MD	−0.263	0.934	0.107
NET	0.916	0.081	−0.321
SL	0.950	0.064	−0.230
SPS	0.886	−0.310	0.206
TSW	0.878	−0.374	−0.162
PH	0.021	0.950	−0.130

DE = day to emergency, DH = days to heading, DM = days to maturity, NETP = number of effective tillers per plant, SL = spike length, PH = plant height, SPS = seeds per spike and TSW = thousands seed weight.