Agro-morphological genetic diversity assessment of Amaranthus genotypes from Ethiopia based on qualitative traits

Table 4 Qualitative morphological traits, their Shannon–Weaver diversity index, across genotypes, within and among collection regions, and maximum Shannon’s Weaver diversity index for 20 morphological qualitative traits during the analysis of 120 Genotypes from Ethiopia

Qualitative marker	H'_sp.	H'_cr	H'_cr/ H'_sp.	(H'_sp -H'_cr)/H'_sp	H_max
Germination rate	0.12	0.01	0.08	0.92	0.69
Growth habit	0.57	0.07	0.12	0.88	0.69
Branching index	0.59	0.02	0.03	0.97	0.69
Stem pubescence	0.52	0.44	0.85	0.15	1.1
Stem pigmentation	0.69	0.55	0.80	0.20	1.61
Spines in leaf axils	0.57	0.07	0.12	0.88	0.69
Leaf pubescence	0.92	0.52	0.57	0.43	0.69
Leaf pigmentation	0.88	0.95	1.00	− 0.08	2.2
Leaf shape	0.78	0.84	1.00	− 0.08	1.39
Leaf margin	0.12	0.14	1.17	− 0.17	0.69
The prominence of leaf veins	0.12	0.07	0.58	0.42	0.69
Petiole pigmentation	0.84	0.80	0.95	0.05	1.39
Terminal inflorescence shape	0.70	0.88	1.26	− 0.26	1.95
Terminal inflorescence attitude	0.55	0.25	0.45	0.55	0.69
Inflorescence density index	0.99	0.59	0.60	0.40	0.69
Inflorescence color	0.95	0.80	0.84	0.16	1.79
Seed shattering	0.87	0.75	0.86	0.14	1.39
Seed color	0.76	0.68	0.89	0.11	1.61
The presence of auxiliary inflorescence	0.12	0.1	0.83	0.17	0.69
Sex type	0.60	0.07	0.12	0.88	0.69
Mean	0.61	0.43	0.66	0.34	1.10

H’ sp, the diversity index for each character calculated from the entire data set; H'cr_, the average diversity index of each character pooled over the seven collection regions and one unknown; H’_cr/H’_sp, the proportion of diversity within collection regions; (H’_sp – H’ _cr)/H’ _sp, the proportion of diversity between collection regions, H_max = maximum Shannon’s weaver diversity indexed

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