Abstract
A study was conducted using nineteen exotic collections of tomato. Genetic divergence analysis following Mahalanobis D 2 statistics revealed considerable genetic diversity among 19 genotypes of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) for all the eighteen quantitative characters which was pertaining to the growth, earliness, yield and quality. Fruit weight, plant height and number of fruits per plant contributed 92.40% to the total divergence. Appreciable diversity within and between the clusters was observed. The characters fruit weight, number of fruits per plant and plant height were the potent factors in differentiating the germplasm of tomato under study. Five clusters were fanned from the D 2 analysis using Tocher's method. Cluster II topped with maximum number of genotypes among cluster fanned, while maximum inter-cluster distance was observed
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