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 |
In the present investigation a total of forty seven maize inbred lines were studied to assess the genetic diversity for 10 quantitative traits viz., days to 50% tasseling, days to 50% silking, days to maturity, plant height (cm), ear length (cm), ear height (cm), 100-seed weight (g), kernel rows per ear, number of kernels per row and grain yield per plant (g) using principal component analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis. The PCA identified four principal components (PCs) with Eigen value greater than 1.00 and accounted for 80.35 per cent of total variation. Cluster analysis based on Ward’s minimum variance procedure distributed the inbreds into 7 clusters indicating their broad genetic base of which cluster II was the largest containing ten inbreds and maximum inter-cluster distance was recorded between clusters IV and VII (1177.88) suggesting their use in breeding programmes for the exploitation of heterosis for the desirable yield traits.
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