Crop Improvement Division Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore-641 007 (Tamil Nadu).
1Present address: Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Regional Centre, Post Box No. 52, Kamal - 132 001.
Nine clones of S. barberi and four clones of S. sinense were evaluated to study genetic divergence. The clones were grouped into four clusters on the basis of 13 quantitative characters subjected to multivariate D2 analysis. Hybridization among clones from cluster IV and II, IV and III; and I and II having the maximum inter-cluster distances may yield better recombinants for various characters.
