Figure 3

Principal component analysis using the key variance components (PC1 and PC2) for yield, agronomic traits, Fe, and Zn of P1 and P2 RIL populations grown in 2017 DS, 2017 WS and 2018 DS. Purple dots inside the box correspond to the RILs of P1 and P2. A small angle between traits (colored in red) implies positive correlation, a large one suggests negative correlation, and a 90-degree angle indicates no correlation between traits. Traits with a high contribution to the population variance are in longer vector lines whereas traits with low contribution are in shorter lines. DF days to flowering (days), PH plant height (cm), NT number of tillers, NP number of panicles, PL panicle length (cm), YLD yield (kgha-1), TGW thousand grain weight (g), GL grain length (mm), GW grain width (mm), Fe iron (ppm), Zn zinc (ppm).