Genetic diversity analysis of advanced breeding lines of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Mansf.)
Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Mansf.) breeding lines were subjected to 26 standardised distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) morphological descriptors to estimate the genetic diversity among 165 advanced breeding lines (F4 and BC1F3). Descriptive statistics quantified trait variability across vegetative...