Vol. 12, Issue 10 (2023)

Author(s):
Kanchan Pradhan, PK Joshi, Nandan Mehta and Gautam Kumar Jatav

Abstract:
Genetic divergence analysis of sixteen flax genotypes, including three check varieties (RLC-148, RLC-153, JRF-5). The experiment was carried out at the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture IGKV, Raipur (C.G) in RCBD with three replications. The D² statistic of Mahalanobis (1936) and Tocher's approach for cluster formation, as described by Rao (1952), were used to analyze divergence. A diversity analysis was carried out among sixteen flax accession of linseed. Genotypes were classified into V clusters. The highest number of genotypes appeared in cluster-I, followed by cluster-II and cluster-IV. Maximum intra-cluster distances were observed at cluster-III and cluster-V. The maximum inter-cluster distance was observed between cluster IV&V, followed by between cluster III & IV.