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An experiment was conducted with sixty genotypes to assess the genetic divergence for thirty quantitative characters. Analysis of variance indicated existence of large variability among the genotypes for all the traits.Sixty genotype were grouped into five distinct clusters depending upon the similarities of their D2 values. Cluster I had the highest number of genotypes (25) followed by cluster IV (13), cluster III (11), cluster II (7) and cluster V (4). Fruit yield per plant (13.77) had the highest the contribution towards the total genetic divergence. The maximum intra-cluster distances were recorded in cluster V followed by cluster IV, cluster I, cluster III and cluster II. The maximum inter-cluster distance was observed in between cluster V and II. The genotypes which were in cluster V, IV and I also exhibited significant performance for fruit yield per plant, 100 seed weight, number of seeds per plant, fresh fruit weight, fruit diameter, fruit length, number of fruits per plant and number ofbranches per plant.
Keywords: Okra, fruit yield, genetic divergence, D²