Table 4.

Genotypic (above diagonal) and phenotypic (below diagonal) correlation coefficient between various plant traits in different wheat genotypes.

Traits	Days to start heading	Flag leaf area	Peduncle length	Plant height	Days to reach maturity	Spike length	Number of productive tillers per plant	Number of spikelets per spike	Number of grains per spike	1000-grain weight	Grain yield per plant
Days to start heading		−0.037	−0.154	−0.130	0.176	0.042*	0.179	0.002*	−0.009	0.025	−0.025
Flag leaf area	−0.03		0.899**	0.085	−0.087	0.699**	0.248*	0.724**	0.699**	0.693**	0.665**
Peduncle length	−0.091	0.883**		0.119	−0.084	0.759**	0.059	0.787**	0.762**	0.760**	0.774**
Plant height	−0.113	0.079	0.112		0.132	−0.105	−0.304*	−0.145	−0.155	−0.180	0.079
Days to reach maturity	0.084	−0.05	−0.04	0.090		−0.028	−0.190	−0.001	0.016	−0.026	0.104
Spike length	−0.035	0.698**	0.748**	−0.104	−0.006		0.055	0.972**	0.946**	0.940**	0.891**
Number of productive tillers per plant	0.082	0.244*	0.054	−0.284*	−0.164	0.052		0.040	0.057	0.066	−0.132
Number of spikelets per spike	−0.019	0.720**	0.773**	−0.124	0.008	0.965**	0.041		0.968**	0.957**	0.912**
Number of grains per spike	−0.012	0.697**	0.750**	−0.147	0.016	0.943**	0.058	0.965**		0.991**	0.935**
1000-grain weigh	0.018	0.691**	0.745**	−0.170	−0.020	0.938**	0.066	0.953**	0.990**		0.921**
Grain yield per plant	−0.015	0.664**	0.763**	0.074	0.083	0.889**	−0.131	0.908**	0.933**	0.920**

^**Highly significant at P = ≤0.01

^*Significant at P = ≤.