Genetic Diversity among Sugarcane Genotypes Based on Qualitative Traits

Table 3

Estimates of the Shannon-Weaver diversity index (), for 16 qualitative characters in 400 sugarcane genotypes by location of collection of local and country of introduction of exotic genotypes.

Location	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O	P	Mean ± SE
Amhara	0.83	0.77	0.78	0.89	0.87	0.80	0.96	0.86	0.87	0.80	0.86	0.44	0.66	0.66	0.85	0.95
Benishangul-Gumuz	0.88	0.97	0.97	0.88	0.90	0.94	0.86	0.88	0.58	0.97	0.92	0.72	0.00	0.97	0.97	1.00
Gambella	1.00	0.92	1.00	0.92	0.97	0.65	0.65	0.00	1.00	0.96	0.96	0.00	0.00	0.92	1.00	1.00
Harari	1.00	0.81	0.81	0.95	0.95	0.95	1.00	0.81	0.81	0.95	0.95	0.00	0.81	0.81	1.00	0.81
Oromia	0.89	0.74	0.81	0.81	0.90	0.67	0.97	0.77	0.64	0.79	0.85	0.55	0.79	0.62	0.84	1.00
SNNP	0.82	0.72	0.85	0.78	0.82	0.71	0.98	0.83	0.74	0.83	0.90	0.51	0.59	0.88	0.86	1.00
Somali	0.92	0.92	0.96	0.97	0.96	0.92	0.79	0.92	0.92	0.79	0.96	0.00	0.92	0.00	0.92	1.00
Tigray	0.99	0.89	0.80	0.98	0.89	0.92	0.97	0.87	0.69	0.97	0.75	0.37	0.00	0.86	0.86	0.94
Australia (Queensland)	0.81	1.00	0.95	1.00	1.00	0.95	0.81	0.95	0.81	0.95	0.95	0.00	0.81	0.00	0.95	1.00
Barbados	0.70	0.85	0.88	0.92	0.86	0.55	0.93	0.82	0.84	0.85	0.85	0.26	0.54	0.73	0.86	0.87
Brazil (Campos)	0.98	0.81	0.95	0.88	0.92	0.84	0.92	0.86	0.52	0.95	0.86	0.41	0.41	0.65	0.87	0.92
Cuba	0.88	0.82	0.88	0.95	0.88	0.72	0.82	0.91	0.58	0.93	0.93	0.00	0.72	0.47	0.97	0.97
Guyana (Demerara)	0.90	0.76	0.89	0.91	0.92	0.42	0.99	0.98	0.95	0.92	0.93	0.54	0.54	0.70	0.96	0.81
India	0.90	0.84	0.94	0.92	0.90	0.50	0.95	0.88	0.84	0.80	0.81	0.30	0.59	0.80	0.89	0.68
Mauritius	0.81	0.93	0.95	0.83	0.89	0.89	0.95	0.89	0.90	0.94	0.88	0.34	0.54	0.70	0.88	0.90
Mexico	0.41	0.87	0.94	0.83	0.97	0.81	0.94	0.81	0.92	0.71	0.89	0.81	0.81	1.00	0.94	0.00
Puerto Rico	0.37	0.72	0.86	0.71	0.93	0.81	1.00	0.89	0.90	0.89	0.91	0.59	0.37	0.99	0.97	0.90
South A. Natal	0.75	0.70	0.92	0.83	0.92	0.81	0.97	0.90	0.82	0.79	0.87	0.68	0.68	0.68	0.89	0.49
Unknown	0.69	0.77	0.92	0.92	0.92	0.51	1.00	0.88	0.82	0.89	0.92	0.30	0.49	0.69	0.91	0.83
USA	0.94	0.84	0.88	0.88	0.94	0.65	0.88	0.86	0.90	0.82	0.84	0.47	0.51	0.69	0.85	0.82
EL	0.82	0.83	0.90	0.89	0.92	0.75	0.92	0.83	0.80	0.87	0.89	0.37	0.54	0.69	0.91	0.84

A: BUDCUSHION; B: BUDEXTEND; C: BUDSHAPE; D: CANOPY; E: DEWLAPSHAP; F: ERECT; G: INALIGN; H: INSHAPE; I: LEAFCOLOR; J: AURICLEOUT; K: LIGSHAPE; L: STALKCORKC; M: STALKCORKP; N: STALKCRACK; O: RINDCOLE; P: BUDGROOVE; EL: entire location. Character abbreviations are as defined in Table 2.