Molecular Biology Laboratory, Botany Department, Calcutta University, Calcutta (West Bengal).
Genetic diversity of indigenous West Bengal salt-tolerant rices was made on yield and seven other yield attributes. Eighteen rice varieties, selected on salinity tolerance character, could be grouped into four dusters. The observations show that two Chinsura-Boro rice varieties may be of distant origin or have diverged at two rice research stations of W. Bengal. Two Patnai rice varieties. P 23 and P298, collected from CRRS, are distandy placed.
Rice, Oryza sativa, clustering, genetic diversity, salt tolerance
