NON-HIERARCHICAL EUCLIDEN CLUSTER ANALYSIS IN BLACK GRAM (VIGNA MUNGO L.HEPPER)

摘要

One hundred and thirty nine genotypes/accessions of bla'ck gram (Vigna mungo L. Hepper) were evaluated in an augmented block design. Considerable variation was observed among accession for their characters. The accession were grouped into 16 cluster based on non-hierarchical euclidean cluster analysis, Cluster II and XVI were the diverse clusters. Considerable variation in cluster means was observed for most of the characters These observations indicate that there is ample scope of varietal improvement through hybridization between cluster II accession and cluster XVI accession to obtain high yielding, MYMV resistant segiegants possessing good seed quality.