Plant Breeding and Biotechnology

Table. 3.

Table. 3. Table 3

Correlation analysis among 11 drought-related traits of 12 flint maize inbred lines.

Traits	PH	LA	LW	SW	SFW	RFW	RL	TCC	SDW	RDW
Tolerance	0.680^*	0.677^*	0.775^**	0.603^*	0.686^*	0.529	0.447	‒0.211	0.812^**	0.677^**
PH		0.445	0.652^*	0.235	0.375	0.125	0.252	‒0.129	0.323	0.343
LA			0.701^*	0.663^*	0.703^*	0.623^*	0.165	‒0.296	0.592^*	0.637^*
LW				0.782^**	0.888^**	0.712^**	‒0.058	‒0.296	0.839^**	0.517
SW					0.981^**	0.862^**	0.079	‒0.373	0.885^**	0.598^*
SFW						0.856^**	0.034	‒0.365	0.917^**	0.593^*
RFW							‒0.124	‒0.523	0.845^**	0.634^*
RL								0.096	0.147	0.370
TCC									‒0.281	‒0.503
SDW										0.594^*

* and ** show the significant differences at the 0.05 and 0.01 probability levels, respectively.

PH: plant height, LA: leaf area, LW: leaf weight, SW: stem weight, SFW: shoot fresh weight, RFW: root fresh weight, RL: root length, TCC: total chlorophyll content, SDW: shoot dry weight, RDW: root dry weight.

Plant Breed. Biotech. 2022;10:257-71 https://doi.org/10.9787/PBB.2022.10.4.257