Introduction Knowledge about genetic diversity is a prerequisite of any breeding programme. Inclusion of diverse parents in hybridisation programmes serves the purpose of combining desirable genes in new recombinations. Mahalanobi’s D statistic (7) is a powerful tool in quantifying the degree of divergence at genotypic level. Several workers have used this method to quantify the degree of diver...

The study was conducted on 50 landrace populations of grass pea at Adet Research Center, Ethiopia, using Randomised Complete Block Design in three replications to determine morphological variability and character associations. Evaluations were made on plant and yield characters from eight plants tagged randomly from each plot. The data were subjected to Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), heritabilit...

Ecological model for organizing the quantitative traits and method of orthogonal regressions were applied to evaluate both, aboveground root biomass grass pea varieties different originating. The study was conducted three years. highest yields fresh BGE015741 (840.40 kg/da), LAT4362 (779.3 kg da-1) BGE027129 (722.80 da-1). Plants BGE025277 have a higher weight mass exhibit good combination adap...