Table 5.
Mean performance of different quantitative traits in each cluster.
| Traits | Clusters |
Grand Mean | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | II | III | IV | V | ||
| Days to emergence (days) | 6.28 | 5.92 | 7.48 | 7.01 | 6.98 | 6.73 |
| Days to flowering (days) | 33.88 | 42.79 | 36.95 | 50.70 | 55.67 | 44.00 |
| Plant height at flowering (cm) | 57.20 | 60.27 | 61.15 | 82.19 | 95.01 | 71.16 |
| Leaf number (number) | 21.59 | 30.26 | 30.41 | 30.1 | 30.86 | 28.64 |
| Leaf area (cm2) | 64.53 | 79.58 | 22.04 | 76.62 | 78.86 | 64.33 |
| Leaf length (cm) | 14.09 | 14.48 | 9.04 | 15.73 | 16.06 | 13.88 |
| Leaf width (cm) | 6.80 | 7.19 | 4.68 | 7.71 | 7.81 | 6.84 |
| Leaf thickness (mm) | 0.40 | 0.39 | 0.35 | 0.39 | 0.37 | 0.38 |
| Petiole length (cm) | 5.75 | 6.05 | 6.44 | 6.29 | 6.56 | 6.22 |
| Leaf yield (t/ha) | 8.89 | 10.04 | 8.71 | 11.69 | 10.92 | 10.05 |
| Branch number (number) | 18.16 | 22.57 | 34.18 | 33.04 | 34.53 | 28.50 |
| Basal lateral branch length (cm) | 39.55 | 22.41 | 134.65 | 45.71 | 54.62 | 59.39 |
| Top lateral branch length (cm) | 33.33 | 18.11 | 25.56 | 20.56 | 18.93 | 23.30 |
| Node number (number) | 20.02 | 27.05 | 27.91 | 26.48 | 27.16 | 25.72 |
| Days to maturity (days) | 82.88 | 85.23 | 101.41 | 102.02 | 106.8 | 95.67 |
| Plant height at maturity (cm) | 166.27 | 169.86 | 188.00 | 232.13 | 263.89 | 204.03 |
| Stem diameter (cm) | 22.79 | 25.29 | 22.92 | 30.29 | 34.92 | 27.24 |
| Auxiliary inflorescence length (cm) | 22.50 | 13.58 | 12.14 | 13.04 | 6.32 | 13.52 |
| Terminal inflorescence lateral length (cm) | 25.58 | 18.78 | 15.82 | 19.11 | 14.76 | 18.81 |
| Terminal inflorescence stalk length (cm) | 38.97 | 29.00 | 30.96 | 34.34 | 21.31 | 30.92 |
| Grain-filling periods (days) | 49.00 | 42.44 | 64.45 | 51.32 | 51.12 | 51.67 |
| Grain sink filling rate (kg ha−1day −1) | 48.45 | 34.59 | 14.08 | 31.44 | 26.15 | 30.94 |
| Thousand seed weight (g) | 0.96 | 1.02 | 0.68 | 0.91 | 0.69 | 0.86 |
| Grain yield (t ha−1) | 2.28 | 1.42 | 0.89 | 1.50 | 1.24 | 1.47 |