Genetic divergence in land races of rice

Genetic diversity was assessed in 29 land races of rice using Mahalanobis’s D2 statistics. Eight quantitativecharacters including grain yield were considered for the study. Based on genetic distances, the 29 genotypeswere grouped into five clusters. The mode of distribution of genotypes from differe...

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Main Author: T.Rajesh, K.Paramasivam and S.Thirumeni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Indian Society of Plant Breeders 2010-03-01
Series:Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding
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Online Access:http://sites.google.com/site/ejpb09/vol-1-2/Vol-1-2-199-204.pdf?attredirects=0
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description Genetic diversity was assessed in 29 land races of rice using Mahalanobis’s D2 statistics. Eight quantitativecharacters including grain yield were considered for the study. Based on genetic distances, the 29 genotypeswere grouped into five clusters. The mode of distribution of genotypes from different geographic regions intovarious clusters was at random indicating that geographical diversity and genetic diversity were not related .Thecharacters days to first flowering and single plant yield contributed maximum towards genetic divergence. Themaximum inter cluster distance was recorded between cluster IV and cluster V. The genotypes in these clustersVattan and Vellai Chitraikar (cluster IV) and Thulasi Manjari (cluster V) may serve as potential donors forfuture hybridization programmes.
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spelling doaj.art-00ca579763234d37bbf07d73df6c240d2022-12-22T01:59:25ZengIndian Society of Plant BreedersElectronic Journal of Plant Breeding0975-928X2010-03-0112199204Genetic divergence in land races of riceT.Rajesh, K.Paramasivam and S.ThirumeniGenetic diversity was assessed in 29 land races of rice using Mahalanobis’s D2 statistics. Eight quantitativecharacters including grain yield were considered for the study. Based on genetic distances, the 29 genotypeswere grouped into five clusters. The mode of distribution of genotypes from different geographic regions intovarious clusters was at random indicating that geographical diversity and genetic diversity were not related .Thecharacters days to first flowering and single plant yield contributed maximum towards genetic divergence. Themaximum inter cluster distance was recorded between cluster IV and cluster V. The genotypes in these clustersVattan and Vellai Chitraikar (cluster IV) and Thulasi Manjari (cluster V) may serve as potential donors forfuture hybridization programmes.http://sites.google.com/site/ejpb09/vol-1-2/Vol-1-2-199-204.pdf?attredirects=0Land racesGenetic divergenceD2 analysis
spellingShingle T.Rajesh, K.Paramasivam and S.Thirumeni
Genetic divergence in land races of rice
Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding
Land races
Genetic divergence
D2 analysis
title Genetic divergence in land races of rice
title_full Genetic divergence in land races of rice
title_fullStr Genetic divergence in land races of rice
title_full_unstemmed Genetic divergence in land races of rice
title_short Genetic divergence in land races of rice
title_sort genetic divergence in land races of rice
topic Land races
Genetic divergence
D2 analysis
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