Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Author(s):
Rumit Patel, Dipak A Patel, Juned Memon, Arna Das and Kalyanrao Patil

Abstract:
Maize is an important crop having more diversity for various traits including different grain properties like colour, sweetness, protein and oil quantity. The current study provides information on morphological variety among chosen genotypes. D² values between all 1275 pairings varied from 28.52 to 29.52. The greatest inter-cluster distance (D = 722.50) was discovered between clusters 15 and 5, followed by 10 and 12 and 10 and 17. The shortest inter-cluster distance was found between clusters 21 and 11. For certain features, a wide range of mean values was reported among the clusters. Cluster 14 had the highest mean values for 50% silking and tasseling days. Cluster 13 outperformed the others in terms of ear length (18.41) and kernels per row (34.00). Similarly, the 14th cluster has a greater ear girth.