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Table 6.

Correlation coefficients for different morphological traits at maturity during spring and summer

Trait	Season	NaCl (mmol/L)	Correlation coefficient
Trait	Season	NaCl (mmol/L)	PH	NB	DF	P/Pl	PW	PL	PG	Y
PH	Spring	0	1	−0.240	−0.601	−0.264	0.562	−0.132	0.136	−0.062
		60	1	0.278	−0.743^**	−0.043	0.891^**	0.447	0.220	0.484
		80	1	0.616^*	−0.695^*	0.480	0.883^**	0.823^**	0.761^**	0.662^*
	Summer	0	1	−0.009	0.505	−0.377	0.079	0.263	0.449	−0.228
		60	1	0.288	−0.632^*	0.375	0.521	0.773^**	0.833^**	0.649^*
		80	1	0.414	−0.394	0.457	0.511	0.899^**	0.921^**	0.630^*
NB	Spring	0		1	−0.219	0.284	−0.458	0.088	0.238	0.104
		60		1	−0.360	0.252	0.330	0.669^*	0.785^**	0.369
		80		1	−0.284	0.481	0.571	0.525	0.733^*	0.478
	Summer	0		1	0.220	0.724^*	−0.230	0.554	0.496	0.261
		60		1	−0.322	0.769^**	−0.156	0.289	0.034	0.236
		80		1	−0.309	0.774^**	−0.045	0.578	0.403	0.468
DF	Spring	0			1	0.097	−0.370	−0.049	−0.093	−0.034
		60			1	0.447	−0.526	−0.224	−0.085	0.012
		80			1	−0.184	−0.704^*	−0.823^**	−0.605^*	−0.377
	Summer	0			1	−0.145	0.021	−0.089	0.134	−0.059
		60			1	−0.412	−0.432	−0.323	−0.411	−0.551
		80			1	−0.673^*	−0.428	−0.547	−0.682^*	−0.728^*
P/Pl	Spring	0				1	−0.284	−0.104	−0.397	0.932^**
		60				1	0.195	0.501	0.507	0.823^**
		80				1	0.663^*	0.219	0.723^*	0.947^**
	Summer	0				1	−0.581	0.567	0.174	0.097
		60				1	−0.147	0.307	0.049	0.388
		80				1	0.047	0.665^*	0.566	0.716^*
PW	Spring	0					1	0.089	−0.357	0.079
		60					1	0.613^*	0.449	0.714^*
		80					1	0.850^**	0.841^**	0.843^**
	Summer	0					1	−0.325	0.385	0.747^**
		60					1	0.289	0.841^**	0.838^**
		80					1	0.383	0.614^*	0.712^*
PL	Spring	0						1	0.283	−0.042
		60						1	0.915^**	0.714^*
		80						1	0.654^*	0.469
	Summer	0						1	0.639^*	0.026
		60						1	0.606^*	0.394
		80						1	0.891^**	0.665^*
PG	Spring	0							1	−0.529
		60							1	0.615^*
		80							1	0.755^**
	Summer	0							1	0.556
		60							1	0.773^**
		80							1	0.766^**

PH: plant height; NB: number of branches; DF: days to 50% flowering; P/Pl: pods per plant; PW: pod width; PL: pod length; PG: pod girth; Y: pod yield. ‘−’ sign shows negative correlation

Significant correlation (P<0.05)

^**

Highly significant correlation (P<0.01)