Table 3. Phenotypic correlations among lint yield and its components based on trait means of 356 upland cotton accessions across three environments.

Traitsa	LY	SY	BN	BW	LP	LI
SY	0.963***
BN	0.869***	0.895***
BW	0.461**	0.497***	0.144
LP	0.740***	0.544***	0.523***	0.229***
LI	0.671***	0.541***	0.384***	0.554***	0.796***
SI	−0.257***	−0.119*	−0.311***	0.424***	−0.498***	0.121*

^a See Table 2 for abbreviations.