Table 5.

Cluster means of 135 M₂ chickpea families for the various quantitative traits.

Traits	Cluster I	Cluster II	Cluster III	Cluster IV	Cluster V	Cluster∗ VI	Cluster VII	Cluster VIII	Cluster IX
Days to flowering	98.59	98.31	98.68	98.94	99.13	97.52	99.93	95.14	100.02
Days to maturity	143.63	144.16	142.92	145.45	145.93	142.17	146.15	140.28	147.12
Plant height (cm)	51.33	56.25	55.88	53.94	56.02	55.09	55.28	44.21	53.52
Height of first pod (cm)	22.86	24.91	24.39	25.14	25.58	22.54	27.48	19.58	26.36
Number of primary branches	2.92	3.29	2.63	3.26	3.03	3.21	3.28	2.46	3.06
Number of seeds/pod	0.97	0.98	1.05	0.95	0.99	1.04	1.32	0.78	1.00
Total number of pods/plant	51.75	59.02	59.50	43.10	51.75	71.30	50.96	49.63	40.36
Total number of seeds/plant	52.16	59.10	62.76	42.97	51.63	73.96	72.72	46.83	40.77
Seed yield (g)	16.87	20.23	22.22	14.16	18.17	23.22	17.36	13.74	13.89
Hundred seed weight (g)	32.71	33.98	35.19	31.79	35.19	31.87	21.33	26.71	34.16

^∗Control was represented in this cluster.