1Department of Plant Breeding, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar-263 145
2Pigeonpea Breeder, ICRISAT, Patancheru P.O., Andhra Pradesh-502 324.
In this investigation, by and large, genotypes included in the same cluster had identiea means but the linear responses were not the same. However, genotypes included in the same cluster had almost identical non-linear responses. Therefore, grouping of material into different clusters based on regression analysis was found to be reliable as that of Mahalanobis' D2 Statistic.
