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. 2021 Sep 6;12:697576. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.697576

TABLE 4.

Reproductive strategies (PCs) that significantly contribute to seed yield in Winter OSR and Spring OSR for macrotraits and for alltraits (macro and microtraits together) when dropping terms.

Macrotraits Alltraits


Winter OSR Spring OSR Winter OSR Spring OSR





PC order Approximate F-statistics PC order Approximate F-statistics PC order Approximate F-statistics PC order Approximate F-statistics
PC1macro 363.61 PC1macro 413.66 PC1alltraits 235.2 PC1alltraits 289.69
PC5macro 117.95 PC5macro 71.05 PC7alltraits 68.6 PC7alltraits 54.71
PC7macro 71.39 PC6macro 33.59 PC6alltraits 50.1 PC6alltraits 35.23
PC10macro 56.01 PC10macro 16.58 PC10alltraits 38.14 PC14alltraits 14.08
PC6macro 44.8 PC7macro 15.97 PC14alltraits 29.46 PC9alltraits 9.98
PC8macro 22.22 PC3macro 4.77 PC9alltraits 26.77 PC5alltraits 8.54
PC2macro 20.16 PC2macro 1.63 PC2alltraits 22.49 PC4alltraits 8.17
PC11macro 8.52 PC13alltraits 15.73 PC13alltraits 6.42
PC4macro 6.38 PC15alltraits 9.35 PC10alltraits 4.94
PC8alltraits 8.72
PC4alltraits 7.81

The order of importance of the reproductive strategies for yield and the approximate F-statistics are reported in the table. Each PC represents combinations of the measured traits, defining ideal reproductive strategies that plants adopt within the population.