Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110 012.
Forty-two synthetic hexaploid wheat (SHW) accessions were studied for their genetic divergence for a set of 10 morpho-agronomic characters using Mahalanobis D2-statistic. The genotypes were grouped into three clusters with variable number of accessions. On the basis of the data on genetic divergence and cluster means, it is predicted that cluster III and cluster I were important for between cluster and cluster II was important for within cluster improvement. Therefore, this information may be useful to the breeders involved in wheat improvement by using these genotypes in multiple breeding programmes to recover transgressive segregants with desirable combinations of yield components.
Cluster, Genetic Divergence, Synthetic Hexaploid Wheats
