Classification of Winter Rapeseed Cultivars and their Yield Characters with the Common Vector Approach

In this study, five cultivars (Ceres, Zorro, Falcon, Express, and Samourai) of winter rapeseed were classified by using the common vector approach (CVA). For this purpose, seven yield characters (plant height, number of branches per plant, number of pods per plant, number of pods on main stem, number of seeds per pod, pod length and thousand seed weight) of each cultivar were used. The seven and six yield characters taken from five cultivars were classified by using CVA. 100% classification rate is guaranteed for the training set of both studies. For the test set, the classification of five cultivars has low performance, but the classification of seven and six yield characters gave satisfactory results. It is concluded that the CVA method was successful in the classification of different varieties belonging to any plant and/or of different characters belonging to any variety.