Vol. 10, Issue 2 (2021)

Author(s):
Sarita Devi, RK Gupta, Ashu Chandel, Smriti Bansal and Ajay Rattan

Abstract:
Data for this study was taken from the department of “Floriculture and Landscape Architecture” for the accomplishment of objectives of this investigation which were to assess the relative contribution of growth and flowering characteristics using multivariate techniques i.e. Factor Analysis. The statistical parameters evaluated for different characters revealed the means for plant height, number of days taken for sprouting, percent sprouting, number of leaves per plant, cropping duration, number of cormels per plant, weight of cormels per plant, size of cormels, number of corms per square meter, weight of corms per square meter and size of corms as 33.79 (cm), 23.24, 76.49, 4.62, 197.19, 5.19, 1.06 (g), 0.82 (cm), 54.22, 1275.35 (g) and 3.12 (cm) respectively. Two factors were extracted by applying factor analysis which explained 79.203% of total variation of the original variables. Thus factor analysis has brought out two factors associated with morphological characteristics of Gladiolus hybrida.