Assessment of genetic divergence by factor analysis in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
Loading...
Files
Date
1986
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Department of Statistics, College of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Mannuthy
Abstract
Factor analysis, Principal component analysis, discriminent analysis, and cluster analysis were carried out with a multivariate data on 30 characters of 62 bunch type groundnut varieties grown in upland during khariff 1982 and rice fallows during summer 1982. Vegetative, reproductive and growth factors were identified as the causative factors of genetic divergence in both the environments. A height factor was also found to work with rice fallows. The characters which were most amenable to change due to selection in these factors were identified. They were not found to agree with the results obtained from discriminant analysis. When factor loadings were estimated from principal components, clustering of characters were found identical to those obtained from factor analysis.
Description
PG
Keywords
null