Determination of Efficiency of Yield Components on Oil Yield Per Plant in Safflower Breeding by Different Statistical Methods
The aim of this study was to determine relationship oil yield and yield components and to show efficiency of components on oil yield by using statistical procedures under rainfed conditions in safflower (Carthamus tinctures L.). Data of oil yield and yield components over the two years in the study were evaluated by statistical procedures; correlation and path analysis, regression analysis (multiple linear regression and best subsets regression), factor analysis, principal component analysis and cluster analysis. Results in this study revealed that hhigh yielding new cultivars are evaluated, selected by using various yield components such as seed yield per capitalism, thousand kernel weight, oil content, yield per plant are getting used more and more for high grain/oil yield and for resistance to drought conditions.
