Vol. 12, Issue 11 (2023)

Author(s):
Sunder Nayak, BL Meena, SC Sharma, Yamini Tak, HP Meghwal, Sharmila Kumari and Himanshi

Abstract:
The current investigation was carried out to evaluate genetic diversity analysis among forty genotypes of soybean in RBD with three replications during kharif-2022, including three check varieties viz., JS 20-34, JS 95-60 and RKS-113 and thirteen component characters were studied for genetic diversity by using D2 statistics. The genotypes were grouped into ten distinct non-overlapping clusters, Cluster III had the maximum intra-cluster distance followed by cluster II and minimum intra-cluster distance was recorded by cluster I. maximum inter-cluster distance were observed between cluster I and X followed by cluster VI and X, cluster VIII and X, cluster I and V, cluster VIII and V, cluster I and IV. The minimum inter-cluster distance was noticed between cluster IX and VII followed by cluster I and VIII, cluster II and V, cluster II and IV indicating efficient breeding program can be undertaken to improve productivity and other yield attributes by selecting superior genotypes in segregating generation.