Legume Research - An International Journal

Genetic diversity in pea with 30 genotypes using D² statistics revealed significant differences among the genotypes for yield and its component characters. The genotypes were grouped into 4 clusters in E¹, 4 clusters in E², 5 clusters in E³, 5 clusters in E⁴, 4 clusters in E⁵, 5 clusters in E₆, 5 cluster in E₇ and 5 cluster in E_8. The intra cluster distance varied from 2.50(II) to 3.786 (III) in E1, 2.489 (II) to 3.409 in E2 (III), 2.546(V) to 3.065 (II) in E3, 2.494 (IV) to 3.282 (II) in E4, 2.684 (III) to 3.020 (II) in E5, 2.667 (II) to 3.008 (IV) in E6, 0.000 (V) to 2.948 (I) in E7 and 0.000 (V) to 2.903 (III) in E8. The results revealed that clustering pattern of genotypes was not consistence over environments. Number of clusters as well as number of genotypes in the cluster differed from environment to environment.