Aim: The present study was carried out to evaluate 145 genotypes of Indian mustard for terminal heat stress under late sown irrigated conditions. Methodology: One hundred and forty five genotypes of Indian mustard were evaluated for terminal heat tolerance, along with six checks in augmented block design. The effect of heat stress was assessed on different agro-morphological traits. Data were recorded on five randomly selected plants for 12 different quantitative traits for each genotype. Results: Terminal heat stress caused significant reduction in performance of all traits, except oil content and fruiting zone length. Seed yield per plant showed highest reduction (33.92%) followed by 1000-seed weight (21.28%). Thousand-seed weight and secondary branches per plant were found associated with seed yield under late sown conditions. Based on yield under stress, yield index, geometric mean productivity and stress tolerance indices, five lines viz., DRMR-59, DRMR-2094, DRMR-2129, DRMR-2071, DRMR-2136 were identified as high yielding and terminal heat stress tolerant. Whereas, based on heat stress susceptibility index, DRMR-1347, DRMR-1154, DRMR-1190 were top performing lines tolerant to terminal heat stress. Interpretation: Selection of high yielding lines under stress condition can be done using correlated traits. Yield under stress was found significantly correlated with YSI, YI, MP, STI and GMP suggesting to use these indices for selection of high yielding and heat tolerant lines. However, further re-validation is very much needed for effective use of these indices for selection of heat tolerant lines in Indian mustard.

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Genetic variance was evaluated in one hundred sixty genotypes of garden pea (Pisum sativum L.) for nine morphological traits through multivariate analysis. Analysis of variance indicated that the genotypes varied significantly among themselves in respect of 9 characters studied. The genotypes were grouped into 14 clusters depending upon their morphological similarity through principal component analysis. Clustering pattern indicated that majority of genotypes, i.e. 113 (70%) were genetically close to each other and grouped in 3 clusters, while apparent diversity was mainly noticed due to 47 genotypes (30%) distributed over 11 clusters. The maximum inter-cluster distance was noticed between III and XIV (61.49) followed by III and VII (51.33) and III and XII (53.27). Considering cluster mean, the genotypes of cluster III might be selected as a suitable parent for future hybridization programme. The contribution of each character towards the expression of genetic divergence indicated that 10-pod weight contributed maximum (58.29) followed by days to 50% flowering (23.83), plant height (11.31) and shelling percent (4.95%). These four characters contributed more than 98% to the total genetic divergence in the genotypes studied.