Assessment of genetic divergence among different species of Aloe collected from Jharkhand Ranchi

Kamini Kumar^a*
*^a University Department of Botany, Ranchi University, Ranchi. Jharkhand — 834001

Received, 10th November, 2013 :Revised, 20th January 2014

 Abstract : Assessment of Genetic divergence using Mahalanobis’s D² statistics was carried out with the help of karyotype analysis among six species of Aloe growing in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The six species of Aloe could be grouped into three constellations. The clustering pattern indicated that clustering was due to genetic distance. These distances suggested that the genetic recombination among genotype of these clusters would result in considerable heterosis.