EVALUATION OF EARLY SUGARCANE CLONES FOR YIELD AND QUALITY TRAITS AND THEIR DIVERSITY ANALYSIS

Performance of seven early maturing clones of sugarcane viz., CoSe 16454, CoP 17437, CoP 17436, CoP 17438, CoP 17441, CoP 17440, CoSe 17451 and three check varieties CoLk 94184, CoSe 95422, CoSe 01421 was evaluated at Kalyanpur farm of DR.RPCAU, Pusa during the 2020-2021 in randomized block design with three replication for fifteen characters viz., germination%, number of shoots, stalk length(cm), number of tillers, stalk diameter, number of millable cane, cane yield, single cane weight, brix%, sucrose%, purity%, fibre%, CCS%, pol%, CCS ton/ha.ANOVA, Path coefficient analysis and Correlation was done.Two clones viz., CoP 17437 and CoP 17441 were found to be better for yield and quality over the best check variety and these two can be used for further breeding programme.Diversity analysis was done and all the seven genotypes and check varieties were divided into four cluster.