Vol. 11, Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
Nishi Mishra, Manoj Kumar Tripathi, Sushma Tiwari, Niraj Tripathi and RS Sikarwar

Abstract:
Soybean is an important leguminous crop in the world with high nutritional values. Identification of diverse genotypes is a prerequisite for the development of strategies for the improvement of soybean crop. The variability may be based on morphological, biochemical or molecular traits. The present study was aimed to identify diverse soybean genotypes on the basis of five different qualitative traits under field experiment. The results reflected the similarity among the genotypes investigated based on measured qualitative variables and showed the discriminative power of the approach tracked in this research work to classify soybean genotypes. The dendrogram depicted two distinct clusters. The cluster-I consisting nineteen genotypes further bifurcated into two groups, while in cluster-II had remaining 34 genotypes and further divided into two subgroups with 9 and 25 genotypes correspondingly. Identified diverse genotypes may be employed for the detection of individual soybean genotypes in hybridization purposes for crop improvement.