A produção do Conhecimento nas Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais

Lima bean is widely disseminated and known in Brazil, especially in the Northeast region. The objective of the present work is to characterize morfoagronomic 10 bean genotypes available at the germplasm bank of the Federal University of Cariri. The experiment was performed in a randomized block with four replicates. To estimate the genetic distance between the genotypes, seven quantitative and four qualitative characteristics were used, with joint analysis using the Gower algorithm. The hierarchical groupings were performed by means simultaneous, and individual analyzes by the UPGMA (Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean) method. The 10 genotypes were grouped into three groups, and group I allocated G109, G45, G06 and G40. Group II was formed by genotypes G04, G16, G82, G49, G42 and group III by G47. The highest genetic distance for all the morphoagronomic characteristics evaluated was found among genotypes G04 and G40 (0.62).