Applied Biological Chemistry

Table 7 Factor loadings of the first four rotated principal components

From: Electrical signal of pepper during cropping period affected by different amount of fertilizer

	PC1	PC2	PC3	PC4
PIES	0.767	0.172	−0.141	−0.026
Stress index	−0.632	0.134	0.306	0.403
Stem extract EC	0.680	−0.054	−0.636	−0.110
Leaf N	0.857	0.102	0.372	0.205
Stem NH₄⁺	0.648	−0.038	0.472	−0.068
Stem NO₃⁻	0.550	0.287	0.719	0.045
Soil NH₄⁺	0.475	0.751	−0.243	0.307
Soil NO₃⁻	0.643	0.592	0.114	0.163
Yield	0.413	0.077	−0.459	0.634
Fresh weight	0.767	−0.362	−0.271	−0.283
Stem height	0.760	−0.188	0.226	−0.359
Stem diameter	0.745	−0.229	−0.504	−0.266
Chlorophyll a	0.421	−0.667	0.050	0.563
Chlorophyll b	0.473	−0.596	0.071	0.583
Proline	0.520	0.638	−0.001	−0.080
MDA	−0.493	0.363	−0.612	0.207
Variability (%)	39.698	16.386	15.241	10.825
Cumulative %	39.698	56.083	71.325	82.150

Values in bold indicate loadings greater than 0.5

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