Assessment of genetic divergence in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) through clustering and principal component analysis under mid hills conditions of Himachal Pradesh, India

The nature and magnitude of genetic divergence was estimated in 35 genotypes of tomato using Mahalanobis D2 – statistics. The genetic material revealed considerable amount of diversity for all the characters investigated. All the genotypes were grouped into 4 clusters. Maximum number of genotypes was accommodated in cluster III.