<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Evaluation of agro-morphological diversity of&#13;
groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) in Niger</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">N M I</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Garba</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">Y</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Bakasso</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">M</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Zaman-Allah</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">S</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Atta</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">M I</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Mamane</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">M</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Adamou</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">F</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Hamidou</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">S S</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Idi</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">A</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Mahamane</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">M</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Saadou</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>This work evaluated a collection of hundred groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) varieties from different&#13;
origin using twenty four (24) agro-morphological traits that can help to enhance selection efficiency in&#13;
crop improvement. The experiment was carried out at the experimental station of INRAN-Tarna, in the&#13;
region of Maradi (Niger) during the rainy season of 2010. Analysis of variance showed a large variability&#13;
among varieties for the agro-morphological traits. Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Agglomerative&#13;
Hierarchical Clustering (AHC) and Fisher Discriminant Analysis (FDA) revealed that this variability is&#13;
structured into four distinct groups. Groups I and II consisted of early varieties that have a high&#13;
emergence rate and high pods and seed weight. These groups included mainly local varieties and those&#13;
introduced in Niger through seed dissemination. Groups III and IV are composed of late varieties with&#13;
large pods while group III had mostly varieties with long leaflets. Understanding the genetic control of&#13;
the most discriminating among the studied traits would bring significant contribution to the genetic&#13;
improvement of this important crop.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Groundnut</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2015-01-29</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>Academic Publishers</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Article</mods:genre></mods:mods>