Plant materials
Sixty-three genotypes of the two cultivated species of jute were selected on the basis of diverse geographical location, which represented 10 countries on the three continents of Asia, Africa and America (Table 1). Two cultivars (BJC-83 and CVL-1) and 37 accessions of C. capsularis and one cultivar (O-9897) with 23 accessions of C. olitorius were evaluated (Ghosh et al. 2013). The materials were provided by the Bangladesh Jute Research Institute.