Table 6 Summarization of PCA under rainfed and irrigated conditions.

From: SPAD dynamics in maize crop with precision nitrogen management under rain-fed and irrigated conditions

Principle component

PC1

PC2

PC1

Eigenvalue

10.10

0.66

10.21

Percentage of variance

91.82

6.03

92.87

Cumulative percentage of variance

91.82

97.86

92.87

Factor loadings

SPAD reading stage (DAS)

Rainfed

Irrigated

15

–0.278

–0.56

–0.27

22

–0.285

–0.518

–0.291

29

–0.306

–0.228

–0.300

36

–0.311

–0.1

–0.297

43

–0.310

0.006

–0.305

50

–0.310

0.039

–0.306

57

–0.309

0.217

–0.308

64

–0.308

0.206

–0.309

71

–0.297

0.344

–0.311

78

–0.302

0.2

–0.310

85

–0.298

0.327

–0.307

  1. Bold faced values are the principle components and underline values are the principle components chosen based on the correlation.