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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="general-sciences" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1335</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>General Sciences</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>EVALUATION OF DIVERSITY IN PEA (PISUM SATIVUM L.) GENOTYPES USING AGRO- MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS AND RAPD ANALYSIS&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Wani</surname><given-names>Gowher A.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mir</surname><given-names>Bilal A.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Shah</surname><given-names>Manzoor A.</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>25</day><month>05</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>17</fpage><lpage>25</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Analysis of the extent and distribution of genetic diversity in crop plants is essential for optimizing sampling and breeding strategies. Germplasm characterization and evaluation yield information for more efficient utilization of these valuable resources. Morphological characters and Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) was used to estimate diversity among 5 genotypes of Pea (Pisum sativum). Selected four RAPD primers generated 24 bands, 10 of which were found to be polymorphic. All the primers produced polymorphic amplification products, however the extent of polymorphism varied with each primer .The percentage of polymorphism generated by primer was P-03 (83.33%), P-05 (25%), P-06 (16.66%) and P-17 (50%). Great variation among morphological characters viz., plant height, number of nodes, internode distance, number of branches, length of branch from main axis, number of leaves, stem diameter, germination percentage and radicle length was observed. UPGMA (Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean) dendrogram obtained from cluster analysis using Jaccard’s similarity coefficient resulted into two major clusters. Cluster I comprised of two genotypes KPMR526 and KPMR569; Cluster II can be further divided into two sub clusters, Sub cluster I comprised two genotypes KPMR571 and KPMR583 while as sub cluster II consists of a single genotype KPMR594. All the genotypes could be discriminated from one another using combined profiles of 4 primers.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Pisum sativum; cultivars; Morphology; RAPD; genetic diversity.</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
