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Genetic diversity within the Saccharum spontaneum germplasm and commercial cultivars from sub tropical part of India has not been extensively examined with molecular markers as it was quite difficult to recognize through morphological and physiological characters. The similarity coefficient ranging from 0.347 (CoS96268 and Calcutta) to 0.865 (CoS 95255 and CoS 767) revealed that there was sympatric relationship between variety × variety and allopatric (0.347) relationship between variety × species. This has also confirmed by the higher variation observed for quality traits in S. spontaneum (71.4 %) than in commercial cultivars (23.11 %).These diverse genotypes had not been extensively utilized in the development of other sugarcane cultivars; they can be used as progenitors for the creation of cultivars with a wider genetic base.
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Authors are thankful to the Cane Development and Sugar Industry, U. P. Government, India for the financial support for the Centre for Sugarcane Biotechnology, is gratefully acknowledged.
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Singh, R.K., Singh, R.B., Singh, S.P. et al. Genetic Diversity Among Saccharum spontaneum Clones and Commercial Hybrids Through SSR Markers. Sugar Tech 15, 109–115 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12355-013-0203-3
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