Fifteen early maturing sugarcane clones including two checks were planted in Randomized Block Design with three replications during spring season 2017 at research farm of RPCAU Pusa to evaluate the variability and clustering pattern for cane yield and yield attributing traits. Observations were recorded for the eighteen traits viz., germination % at 45 days after planting, number of shoots at 120 days, plant height at 150, 240 days and at harvest, cane diameter at harvest, millable canes at harvest, single cane weight at harvest, brix, pol, purity and ccs at 8 and 10 th month stage, sugar yield and cane yield at harvest and after its statistical analysis, all the characters were found differed significantly for all the genotypes. All the early maturing sugarcane clones were grouped into four distinguished clusters among fifteen genotypes.Cluster I contained maximum number of clones (6) followed by cluster IV (4), cluster III (3) and cluster II (2). Maximum intra-cluster D 2 distance was observed in cluster I and maximum intercluster D 2 distance was observed between cluster II and cluster IV. The trait, Pol percent at 10 th month stage showed maximum character contribution percent towards divergence followed by sugar yield at harvest, cane yield and brix at 10 th month stage. Keeping all the genetic information and their conclusive interpretations, it can be safely concluded that to attained these objectives, bi-parental mating or poly-cross technique used for developing high yielding sugarcane clones involving genotypes belonging to cluster II and cluster IV as well as cluster III and cluster IV may be tried.
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