1Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, B.A. College of Agriculture, Anand Agricultural University, Anand-388110, Gujarat, India
2Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Anand Agricultural University, Anand-388110, Gujarat, India
3Department of Agricultural Statistics, Anand Agricultural University, Anand-388110, Gujarat, India
*Email: parthrahevar@gmail.com
Online published on 16 February, 2022.
Chilli is an important vegetable and condiment crop having immense commercial and therapeutic value with great export potential. Current research was aimed to characterize resolving power of morphological traits for reliable identification of 58 chilli accessions using 25 morphological descriptors. All the characters genotypes showed a wide range of variation. UPGMA based clustering using morphological markers distributes all genotypes into three separate major clusters and six sub clusters with unique traits specific genotypes in each. Fruit calyx cover, fruit neck (basal end) and stem pubescence were the most prominent descriptors as that were showing highest PIC value. High discriminating power of number of petals and anthers was found in our study.
Chilli, Diversity, DUS, Morphotypes, Variability
