Genotypes characterization of vegetable soybeans by using principal component analysis

This study presents the characterization of vegetable soybean genotypes. It was applied Principal Component Analysis considering the agronomics, nutritional and antinutritional features: number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, fresh weight of pods per plant (g), fresh weight of 100 seeds (g), estimated total yield of immature seeds (kg ha^-1), moisture content, proteins, lipids, ash, carbohydrates, isoflavones and Kunitz trypsin inhibitor. The experiments were developed in the sector of Olericultura and Plantas Aromático-Medicinais from UNESP-FCAV. The results showed that fresh weight of pods per plant, proteins content, number of pods per plant, fresh weight of 100 seeds, and moisture content were the relevant variables for the discrimination of the genotypes in the first principal component and for the second principal the component were ash content, proteins, number of pods per plant and lipids content. Accordingly, the genotypes JLM010, JLM024 and CNPSO1 were defined as relevant by the variables fresh weight of pods per plant, estimated total yield of immature seeds, number of pods per plant, carbohydrates content, isoflavones and proteins. It was concluded that it is a relevant result because these genotypes were considered candidates to be used in plant breeding programs.

multivariate discrimination; edamame; agronomics features; nutritional features; antinutritional features.