Department of Plant Breeding, G. B. Pant of University Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar-263 145
*Part of the M.Sc. (Ag.) thesis submitted by the first author.
Genetic divergence was measured by Mahalanobis's D2 and principal component analysis in 36 varieties obtained from ten major chickpea growing States of India. The varieties were grouped into 9 different clusters. The cluster of desi group was quite diverse from kabuli ones. Further independent classification by principal component analysis confirmed the classification derived by D8 analysis.
