Vol. 7, Issue 7 (2018)

Author(s):
Suryanarayana L and Sekhar D

Abstract:
Twenty three genotypes of little millet were evaluated for genetic diversity using Mahalanobis D² statistics for five quantitative traits during kharif, 2011. The data was subjected to Mahalanobis’ D² statistics, all the 23 genotypes in the present study were grouped into six clusters. Maximum number of genotypes (8) were included in cluster VI followed by cluster-I (7), cluster-II, III, IV and V with two genotype in each cluster. Considering the inter cluster distances, it was highest between cluster IV and V (163.09) followed by V and VI (145.69). Among the five characters studied, grain yield (q/ha), days to 50% flowering and plant height (cm) contributed maximum towards the total divergence and were found to be responsible for primary differentiation.