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. 2018 Mar 20;9:366. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00366

Table 3.

Phenotypic (rp) and genotypic (rg) correlations between grain yield and different secondary traits for lines per se and their testcross hybrids under well-watered (WW) and drought stressed (DS) conditions.

Trait Hybrids_WW Lines_WW
rp rg rp rg
Anthesis ns ns ns ns
PHT 0.54*** 0.67*** 0.26*** 0.25***
ASI ns ns −0.22*** −0.66***
NDVI 0.53*** 0.84*** 0.53*** 0.70***
Hybrids_DS Lines_DS
Anthesis −0.20*** ns −0.18*** −0.21***
PHT 0.29*** ns 0.36*** 0.38***
ASI −0.27*** ns −0.14*** −0.21***
NDVI 0.42*** 0.72*** 0.48*** 0.66***
Senecence −0.11* ns −0.32*** −0.25***
Leaf rolling −0.20*** ns −0.42*** −0.52***
GLAD 0.49*** 0.70*** 0.60*** 0.61***

Traits evaluated included anthesis, plant height (PHT), anthesis-silking interval (ASI), normalized differential vegetative index NDVI, senescence, leaf rolling and GLAD.

ns,*, **, ***

Correlations non-significant, significant at p < 0.1, 0.05, and 0.01, respectively.