The present study was carried out to study the diversity among the 35 different rice genotypes.The study was carried out in two seasons in randomized block design and evaluated for twelve yield and yield attributing characters.From this pooled diversity analysis was carried out, in that 35 rice genotypes were grouped into seven clusters.Maximum numbers of genotypes were grouped in the cluster II hence it was observed with high intra cluster distance and the cluster VI and VII had single genotype and thus observed with low intra cluster distance.The maximum inter cluster distance, which is a measure of greater genetic diversity had been observed between the cluster I and cluster V. Hence, hybridization between these clusters can be expected to produce transgressive seggregants which can be utilized as effective parents.The character that contributed more for the divergence was found to be single plant yield among the twelve characters studied.
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Keerthana et al. (2024) studied this question.