Table 5. Phenotypic correlation (r) coefficients for traits of agronomic importance between the mean trait values of BCRILs and TC hybrids.

	PH	HD	TP	PL	FGPP	SS	GPP	SPP	GD	YD
BCRIL and Gca	0.46**	0.56**	0.16	0.14	0.19	0.10	0.04	0.37*	0.25	0.01
BCRIL and TCP1	0.23	0.55**	0.16	0.03	0.10	0.10	−0.03	0.25	0.15	−0.06
BCRIL and TCP2	0.48**	0.38**	0.22	0.21	0.19	0.02	0.10	0.33*	0.22	−0.03
BCRIL and TCP3	0.36**	0.52**	0.06	0.12	0.20	0.11	0.02	0.31	0.29	0.10
TCP1 and HmpP1	0.77**	0.91**	0.96**	0.96**	0.94**	0.84**	0.98**	0.92**	0.88**	0.93**
TCP1 and ScaP1	0.35**	0.27*	0.44**	0.40*	0.26	0.54**	0.35*	0.67**	0.58**	0.74**
TCP2 and HmpP2	0.87**	0.97**	0.96**	0.96**	0.95**	0.89**	0.98**	0.92**	0.87**	0.93**
TCP2 and ScaP2	0.76**	0.84**	0.47**	0.48**	0.39*	0.69**	0.43**	0.70**	0.62**	0.75**
TCP3 and HmpP3	0.80**	0.92**	0.96**	0.97**	0.97**	0.88**	0.98**	0.86**	0.83**	0.94**
TCP3 and ScaP3	0.53**	0.30*	0.50**	0.58**	0.75**	0.70**	0.60**	0.86**	0.41*	0.80**
HmpP1 and ScaP1	0.55**	0.35**	0.43**	0.44**	0.31	0.47**	0.36*	0.70**	0.60**	0.70**
HmpP2 and ScaP2	0.70**	0.88**	0.43**	0.42**	0.38*	0.65**	0.39*	0.69**	0.59**	0.70**
HmpP3 and ScaP3	0.58**	0.37**	0.54**	0.57**	0.73**	0.62**	0.60**	0.76**	0.36*	0.73**

For a description of agronomic traits see materials and methods.

HmpP₁, HmpP₂ and HmpP₃ idenote the Hmp values of TCP₁, TCP₂ and TCP₃, respectively; ScaP₁, ScaP₂ and ScaP₃ indicate as the Sca values of TCP₁, TCP₂ and TCP₃, respectively.

*P< 0.05,

**P<0.01.