Phenotypic, genotypic and genetic divergence found in 48 newly collected Malaysian accessions of Jatropha curcas L.

► A sum of 48 accessions of Jatropha curcas L. was collected from Malaysia. ► Broad sense heritability was high in general and exceeded 63.5% for all the traits. ► Genetic advance was higher (>70%) in total no. of seed per plant and seed yield. ► UPGMA dendrogram grouped all the accessions into 6 clusters at coefficient 4.88. ► For the improvement, 2 accessions, D-01-09 and B-03-02 could be used as parents and required to be hybridized with the accessions of other clusters.