Genetic Diversity Analysis and Comprehensive Evaluation of Maize Landraces in Southwest China
Totall 785 maize landraces from Southwest China were used to investigate the relationships between phenotypic traits of maize germplasm resources in Southwest China and to identify and screen elite germplasm resources.The 13 phenotypic traits were comprehensively evaluated by means of membership function,Shannon-Wiener's diversity index,grey correlation analysis,principal component analysis and cluster analysis.The results showed that the coefficients of variation of the 13 phenotypic traits ranged from 10.5%to 84.0%,and the genetic diversity index ranged from 1.597 to 1.999.The grey correlation analysis revealed the relationships between the traits and yield,extensive correlations among the traits,and the abundant genetic variation in the landraces were evaluated.The 785 landraces were divided into three groups according to the method of K-means systematic clustering,including 168,405 and 212 landraces,respectively.Finally,15 landraces with the best performance were screened out.