. 2023 Sep 5;9(9):e19643. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19643

Table 3.

Correlation among different yield and zinc related traits of wheat under control and 0.4% ZnSO₄ foliar application. In table values over diagonal are from control condition and lower are 0.4% ZnSO₄ application.

Traits	Plant Height	Number of Spikelets/Spike	Spike Length	Grain Yield/Plant	Grain Zinc Content	Grain Zinc Bioavailability	Zinc Uptake
Plant Height	1	0.26^ns	0.29^ns	0.01^ns	−0.03^ns	0.32*	−0.01^ns
Number of Spikelets/Spike	−0.07^ns	1	0.82**	0.45**	0.48**	0.36*	0.50**
Spike Length	−0.10^ns	0.63**	1	0.45**	0.33*	0.24^ns	0.41**
Grain Yield/Plant	0.03^ns	0.29^ns	0.30^ns	1	0.70**	0.54**	0.88**
Grain Zinc Content	0.42**	0.24^ns	0.23^ns	0.11^ns	1	0.58**	0.95**
Grain Zinc Bioavailability	0.44**	0.32*	0.28^ns	0.30^ns	0.66**	1	0.61**
Zinc Uptake	0.36*	0.34*	0.33*	0.51**	0.91**	0.69**	1

*Signiﬁcant at 5%, **Signiﬁcant at 1%.