Volume : II, Issue : XII, December - 2013

Biochemical Diversity in Maize

S. Abirami, C. Vanniarajan

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The present investigation was carried out using forty maize genotypes belonging to grain maize, baby corn, sweet corn, pop corn and quality protein maize, to study genetic divergence for five biochemical traits such as total sugar content, starch content, protein content, carotene content and oil content.. This study, grouped the genotypes in to six distinct clusters. Clusters III and IV recorded the maximum inter cluster distance followed by clusters IV and VI. genotypes belonging to these three clusters can be selected for future hyidization programme aiming for quality improvement.

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S. Abirami, C. Vanniarajan Biochemical Diversity in Maize International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.II, Issue.XII December 2013

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