Characters

Plant height

Leaf number

Length of leaf lamina

Breadth of leaf lamina

Number of

cormels per plant

Weight of corm per plant

Weight of

cormels per plant

Dry

matter percentage

Phenotypic correlation with tuber yield per plant

Plant height

0.067

−0.011

0.013

0.000

−0.001

−0.008

0.079

0.006

0.145

Leaf

number

−0.012

0.062

−0.004

0.006

0.004

0.010

0.085

−0.001

0.150

Length of leaf lamina

0.017

−0.005

0.051

−0.063

0.008

−0.003

−0.059

0.026

0.027

Breadth of leaf lamina

0.000

−0.003

0.028

−0.114

−0.001

−0.015

−0.041

0.017

0.130

Number of cormels per plant

0.000

−0.003

−0.005

−0.002

−0.080

−0.037

0.859

−0.055

0.678**

Weight of corm per plant

−0.005

0.006

−0.002

0.018

0.030

0.098

−0.233

0.012

−0.076

Weight of cormels per plant

0.005

0.005

−0.003

0.004

−0.065

−0.022

1.061

−0.052

0.865**

Dry

matter percentage

−0.005

0.001

−0.018

0.026

−0.060

−0.016

0.760

−0.073

0.681**