EVALUATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF FACULTATIVE AND WINTER WHEAT GERMPLASM

Abstract

One hundred and sixty seven exotic facultative and winter wheat germplasm collections were evaluated
for 4 characters using non- hierarchical Euclidean analysis. All the genotypes were grouped into 11
different clusters showing existence of high genetic diversity in the material. The intra cluster distance
was maximum (1.222) in· cluster VII and minimum (0.607) in cluster I. Cluster one and eight
were highly diverse (3.99) from each other. Donors for plant height, test weight, days to 50%
heading and grain yield/plant were identified.