Morphological Characterization and Assessment of Genetic Variability, Character Association, and Divergence in Soybean Mutants

Table 7

Partitioning of genotypic correlations into direct (bold) and indirect effects of eight morphological traits in 31 soybean genotypes by path analysis.

Items	Days to flowering	Days to maturity	Plant height	Branch per plant	Pods per; plant	Seeds per; pod	100-seed wt (gm)	Yield per; plant
Days to flowering	−0.646	1.102	−0.170	−0.141	0.253	0.405	−0.157	0.646**
Days to maturity	−0.601	1.184	−0.161	−0.111	0.188	0.173	−0.005	0.667**
Plant height (cm)	−0.425	0.736	−0.258	−0.221	0.543	1.050	−0.836	0.589**
Branches per plant (number)	−0.318	0.459	−0.201	−0.285	0.528	1.150	−0.949	0.387*
Pods per plant (number)	−0.248	0.338	−0.213	−0.228	0.659	1.250	−1.040	0.518**
Seeds per pod (number)	−0.180	0.141	−0.187	−0.227	0.569	1.450	−1.168	0.398*
100-seed weight (g)	0.076	−0.0086	0.161	0.201	−0.510	−1.258	1.350	0.012

Bold figures indicate the direct effects.
Residual effect = −0.0446.
* and ** indicate significant at 1% and 5% level of probability, respectively.