ABSTRACT
Pearl millet has a place with sort Pennisetum, and family Poaceae. Pearl millet is the most broadly developed grain crop in Asia and Africa representing close to half of the worldwide millet creation. In India, pearl millet is the fourth most broadly developed food crop after rice, wheat, and maize. We used molecular techniques to investigate the genetic diversity and relatedness of six genotypes viz:ICMV155, Dhanshakti, PC-612, Sampada, HHB-67, and HHB-197.the six genotypes was collected from National agriculture research project Aurangabad. The present study was conducted at the Department of Plant Biotechnology at K. K. Wagh College of Agricultural Biotechnology, Nashik.DNA was isolated by fixing a sample in alcohol without using liquid nitrogen; six genotypes were analyzed through SSR primers to determine the extent of molecular characterization. PCR amplification using 10 SSR primers generated a total of 111 no. of bands were scored corresponding an average of 11 bands per primer with 77 bands showing polymorphism (67%) and 34 bands showing monomorphism (30%). The PIC value ranged from 0.35 to 0.68 with an average of 0.4. Jaccard’s coefficient based on SSR analysis 0.38 to 0.90. The dendrogram wasconstructed using the UPGMA method. It has two main clusters Cluster-1 consisting of C1- HHB 67, V6-ICMV-155, C2- HHB 197 and C4- Sampada. Cluster-2 comprised C3-Dhanshakti and V5-PC 612 as an out group. C2- HHB 197 and C4- Sampada genotypes have the highest similarity coefficient 0.76. Among all the genotypes, C1- HHB 67 and V5- PC 612 was found most diverse as it separated from all other genotypes at a very low similarity coefficient of 0.6. The identified markers can prove useful for identification of diverse germplasm and future DNA fingerprinting studies.