Abstract:
7 major agronomic traits of 39 soybean germplasm resources were analyzed with the method of principal component analysis(PCA), and two principal component factors were obtained. The first principal component(MF
1) was positively correlated with plant height, bottom pod height and the number of main stem segments. The second principal component(MF
2) was positively correlated with the number of grains per plant and the grain weight per plant, and negatively correlated with the number of 100-grain weight and effective branches. The cluster analysis were studied through the integrated principal component values and the agronomic trait normalization data. 39 germplasms were divided into 3 major categories and 2 sub-categories through the former method, and divided into 3 major categories and 4 sub-categories through the latter method. By comparison, the analysis results of the two clustering methods were generally consistent.