The National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program)
The agronomy traits indexes of 40 garlic cultivars were Investigated based on the principal of numerical classification, and the PCA of 16 agronomy traits and 5 quality indexes were analyzed, the scatter plot were drawed based on the first 3 PC and the clustering were carried out based on the genetic coefficient. The first 7 PC accounted for 85% variation among the cultivars. The 10 excellent cultivars were selected based on the principal component. The 40 cultivars can be classified into 4 groups when SM coefficient was 0.12 on the UPGMA dendrogram. The clustering based on the 0.07~0.64 SM coefficient explained the genetic relationship of 40 cultivars.