Genetic divergence studies for bulbing and related traits in garlic germplasm during Kharif season

Garlic (Allium sativum) is second important allium crop grown in India after onion. It spite of exclusively propagated by vegetative method, crop shows wide variation in agromorphological traits. For developing varieties with good yield and other favourable traits use of breeding techniques in an option. But in garlic, inability of formation of seed becomes barrier for using introgression breeding techniques.