Agro-morphological genetic diversity assessment of Amaranthus genotypes from Ethiopia based on qualitative traits

Table 9 Eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the first six principal components (PCs) for 19 qualitative characters of 120 genotypes

Traits	Principal Components
Traits	PC1	PC 2	PC 3	PC 4	PC 5	PC 6
Eigenvalue	6.15	2.42	1.82	1.20	1.11	1.03
Proportion	0.32	0.13	0.10	0.06	0.06	0.05
Cumulative	0.32	0.45	0.55	0.61	0.67
	Eigenvectors
Growth habit [GH]	0.96	0.08	− 0.08	0.08	0.10	0.03
Branching index[BI]	− 0.91	− 0.09	0.16	− 0.11	0.08	− 0.03
Stem pubescence[SP]	− 0.70	− 0.03	− 0.10	0.31	− 0.08	− 0.08
Stem pigmentation [SPG]	0.23	0.77	0.06	0.22	0.03	0.08
Spines in leaf axils [SLA]	0.96	0.08	− 0.08	0.08	0.10	0.03
Leaf pubescence [LP]	− 0.62	0.16	− 0.10	0.45	− 0.09	0.00
Leaf pigmentation [LPG]	− 0.10	− 0.65	0.18	0.23	0.04	0.15
Leaf shape [LS]	− 0.10	− 0.10	0.67	0.10	0.38	0.20
Leaf margin [LM]	− 0.39	− 0.10	0.03	0.17	0.29	− 0.51
Prominence of leaf veins [PLV]	− 0.35	0.09	0.18	− 0.60	− 0.07	0.45
Petiole pigmentation [PP]	− 0.02	0.83	0.03	− 0.05	− 0.04	0.09
Terminal inflorescence shape [TIS]	0.16	0.15	0.63	− 0.09	− 0.31	− 0.08
Terminal, inflorescence attitude [TIA]	− 0.24	− 0.12	− 0.31	0.36	0.24	0.68
Inflorescence density index [IDI]	0.61	− 0.50	0.24	0.07	0.01	0.06
Inflorescence color [IC]	0.59	0.28	0.32	0.27	0.03	− 0.03
Seed shattering [SSH]	− 0.75	0.46	− 0.04	0.15	0.00	0.06
Seed color [SC]	0.14	− 0.08	− 0.76	− 0.22	0.03	− 0.04
Germination rate [GR]	0.06	0.23	0.01	− 0.24	0.81	− 0.11
Sex [SX]	0.93	0.03	− 0.11	0.16	− 0.08	0.05

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