National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The present study was conducted to evaluate the genetic divergence among twenty five pigeonpea germplasm using Mahalonobis D2 statistics for seven different traits during kharif 2015. Analysis of variance depicted the significant differences among the traits which indicated the presence of variability in the germplasm. D2 clustering grouped the genotypes into ten clusters. Based on the intercluster distance (1844.86) cluster VIII and X were the most diversified clusters and genotypes from these clusters can be used in the hybridization programme for further improvement. The selection and choice of genotypes as parents mainly depends upon contribution of characters towards divergence. The maximum contribution to genetic divergence was contributed by days to fifty percent flowering and single plant yield followed by number of seeds per pod, plant height and hundred seed weight. Hence selection for these traits would be rewarding in selection of genotypes for hybridization programme.
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