Understanding the genetic variability and diversity of a crops species provides opportunity for plant breeders to develop new and improved cultivars having both farmer-preferred and breeder-preferred traits. In the present study 11 morphological characters and 16 quantitative characters were recorded from 27 advance breeding lines/varieties to identify useful alleles for future breeding. Genotypes varied considerably in plant growth and morphological characters. The overall mean of ShannonWiener diversity index (H’) value was with predominant traits that exhibited wider variations were fruit colour, fruit curvature, fruit shape and growth habit, confirmed the existence of diversity among the genotypes. | Morphological and genetic variations among advance breeding lines and varieties of Brinjal grown in eastern gangetic plains of India
