Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur (Maharashtra).
* Part of Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Jivaji University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.
An assessment of potential variability and genetic diversity was undertaken in the genetic resources of G. arboreum using metroglyph and hybrid index score technique. The 150 accessions evaluated were identified into 15 distinct groups for economic and morphological characters. The suitability of the technique for preliminary classification of a large number of germplasm and classifying them into distinct group for qualitative and quantitative characters were found effective.
