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American Journal of Plant Sciences, 2013, 4, 42-47 /10.4236/ajps.2013.41007 Published Online January 2013 (/journal/ajps) Correlation, Regression and Path Analyses of Seed Yield Components in Crambe abyssinica, a Promising Industrial Oil Crop Banglian Huang , Yiming Yang , Tingting Luo , Shu Wu , Xuezhu Du , Detian Cai , 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1,2* Eibertus N. van Loo , Bangquan Huang 1 College of Life Science, Hubei University, Wuhan, China; 2 Hubei Industrial Biotechnology Key Lab, Hubei University, Wuhan, China; Email: 3 Plant Research International, Wageningen, Netherlands. huangbangquan@163.com * Received October 4 , 2012; revised November 4 , 2012; accepted December 14 , 2012 th th th ABSTRACT In the present study correlation, regression and path analyses were carried out to decide correlations among the agro- nomic traits and their contributions to seed yield per plant in Crambe abyssinica. Partial correlation analysis indicated that plant height (X ) was significantly correlated with branching height and the number of first branches (P 0.01); 1 Branching height (X ) was significantly correlated with pod number of primary inflorescence (P 0.01) and number of 2 secondary branches (P 0.05) and negatively correlated with number of first branches (P 0.01); Number of first branches (X ) was significantly correlated with number of secondary branches (P 0.01), pod number per plant and 3 1000-grain weight (P 0.05); Number of secondary branches (X ) was significantly correlated with seed yield per plant 4 (P 0.05); Pod number per plant (X ) was significantly correlated with