GENETIC DIVERGENCE IN WHITE JUTE

Abstract

Genetic divergence was estimated for identifying parental genotypes having distant relationship for hybridization program. Fifty one genotypes of white jute from different geographic origin were analyzed through principal component analysis. principal coordinate analysis. canonical variant analysis and cluster analysis by Mahalanobis 02 statistics with II morphological characters. All the genotypes were grouped into six different clusters. The cluster V and VI had the maximum ten genotypes while cluster I had the minimum of seven genotypes. The highest inter-genotypic distance (1.844) was found between G" and G~, and the lowest distance between G", and G,r, (0.233) The highest inter-cluster distance (14.367) was observed between cluster I and IV and the lowest distance (2.458) was found between cluster III and V. The highest intra-cluster distance was found in cluster 1(0.835) and lowest in cluster V(O.604)