Author(s):

PS Ranpise, VR Joshi and BT Patil

Abstract: Genetic divergence was studied among 35 okra germplasm lines using Mahalanobis D² analysis. Analysis of variances for dispersion indicated significant differences among the genotypes and they were grouped into nine clusters. The cluster A consisted of 25 genotypes followed by cluster E contain 3 genotypes, whereas cluster B, C, D, F, G, H and I and were solitary clusters. The highest inter cluster distance observed between clusters E and cluster G while cluster E shown maximum intra cluster distance. The characters diameter of fruit (43.53%) contributed maximum genetic divergence followed by length of fruit (23.53%), plant height (10.92%). Cluster I and F shown high cluster means for yield and yield component, therefore genotypes viz. G-15, G-16, G-24 from cluster E and G-2 from cluster G of these diverse clusters may be used for further hybridization.

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