Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In the present investigation, thirty-five soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merril) genotypes were evaluated to study genetic diversity using Mahalanobis D 2 statistics.The experiment was conducted at Research Farm, Agricultural research station, Kasbe Digraj (Sangli) during rabi 2022.Data were recorded on ten quantitative characters.The thirty-five genotypes of soybean were grouped into six clusters using the Tocher method.Of the six clusters formed, clusters I and IV were the largest groups, comprising ten and nine genotypes, respectively, followed by cluster II with seven genotypes, and clusters III, V, and VI with three genotypes each.Clusters Ⅳ and Ⅵ had the greatest inter-cluster distance (D=11.86).Intracluster distance ranged between 3.43 to 5.63.The biggest contribution to total divergence came from character Trypsin inhibitor activity (77.65 %).Based on cluster mean values for a given character, we can select highly divergent genotypes from the respective clusters for crossing work.
Source: PLANT ARCHIVES
Language: English
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4409301531