Evaluation of genetic diversity in short duration cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)

Table 4 Cluster mean for 19 characters in 100 cotton genotypes

Characters	Clusters
Characters	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX	X
Days to emergence	3.80	3.87	3.56	4.00	3.67	3.89	3.60	4.00	3.92	4.00
Germination percentage/%	88.67	94.17	88.96	91.00	93.33	95.55	91.00	95.83	94.61	95.71
No. of plant at harvest	24.05	22.81	24.81	24.90	24.06	26.44	24.30	25.19	23.15	22.14
Plant height /cm	137.86	115.88	127.46	118.71	161.09	130.16	141.93	124.97	120.17	140.95
Days to squaring/d	39.90	44.00	41.50	41.80	43.56	43.00	45.90	42.13	39.54	40.00
Days to flowering/d	53.80	57.25	54.88	54.40	58.44	56.00	58.10	56.75	53.15	55.00
Days to boll opening/d	128.20	110.87	114.37	109.50	118.33	105.22	112.40	127.87	124.62	119.86
Node no. bearing first sympodial branch (NFB)	7.04	6.53	7.15	7.46	7.29	7.32	7.20	6.91	6.90	7.15
Number of monopodial branches	0.83	1.02	0.87	0.70	0.98	0.81	0.87	0.60	0.82	0.77
Number of sympodial branches	15.90	14.97	15.46	15.15	17.43	15.84	18.23	14.95	14.77	15.09
Number of secondary fruiting branches	3.72	5.62	3.75	3.09	5.35	3.49	4.11	2.16	3.36	2.89
Number of flowers per plant	40.44	36.27	37.92	37.40	46.38	37.76	40.49	34.23	35.74	36.71
Number of bolls per plant	29.98	21.03	25.03	25.50	30.56	27.78	26.99	22.17	24.89	25.26
Percent boll retention/%	74.25	58.18	65.97	68.24	65.72	73.61	66.65	64.77	69.48	68.23
Single boll weight /g	5.27	4.95	5.28	5.45	5.01	5.38	5.10	5.46	5.49	5.47
Percent first pick/%	66.83	72.74	70.67	57.88	61.34	71.85	69.71	68.01	56.11	55.77
GOT /%	40.03	35.39	37.79	36.47	38.33	36.78	39.19	39.30	39.08	39.11
Earliness Index	0.87	0.90	0.88	0.81	0.84	0.89	0.87	0.88	0.82	0.81
Seed cotton yield /kg	2.52	2.54	2.54	2.57	2.48	2.63	2.25	2.54	2.38	2.38

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