Legume Research - An International Journal
Web of Science
  • Year: 2002
  • Volume: 25
  • Issue: 2

Genetic divergence in relation to breeding for grain yield in urdbean (Vigna mungo L. hepper)

  • Author:
  • Rajendra Kumar, Avadhesh Singh, A.S. Rathi, Ram Krishna
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 109 to 112

Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur-208002, India

* Author for correspondence.

Online published on 29 October, 2012.

Abstract

Nineteen genotypes of urdbean representing three varieties of [Vigna mungo and 16 F8 genotypes derived from intervarietal crosses were evaluated in a randomized block design with three replications for 12 characters. Observations revealed significant genotypic differences and genotypes were classified in five clusters. Cluster I was the largest with ten genotypes and cluster V contained only one most divergent genotype. The intercluster distance was minimum (27.14) between cluster I and cluster II and maximum (77.30) between cluster II and cluster III.