Assessment of Striga gesnerioides (Willd.) Resistance and Genetic Characterization of Forty-Six Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) Genotypes in Ghana

Table 4

Number of alleles, gene diversity, and polymorphism information content for 16 primers used.

Primers	Sample size	Number of alleles	Allele frequency	Gene diversity	PIC
SSR-6299	46.00	8.00	0.83	0.22	0.81
C42-2B	46.00	2.00	0.65	0.45	0.35
61RM2	46.00	4.00	0.59	0.48	0.73
SSR-6777	46.00	2.00	0.57	0.49	0.37
SSR-6375	46.00	22.00	0.79	0.30	0.23
SSR-6315	46.00	2.00	0.95	0.08	0.08
SSR-6569	46.00	2.00	0.70	0.42	0.33
SSR-6240	46.00	2.00	0.91	0.16	0.15
SSR-6243	46.00	4.00	0.75	0.37	0.82
SSR-6929	46.00	2.00	0.61	0.48	0.36
SSR-6273	46.00	2.00	0.65	0.45	0.35
SSR-6265	46.00	6.00	0.88	0.19	0.70
SSR-6248	46.00	4.00	0.77	0.27	0.86
SSR-6171	46.00	6.00	0.98	0.04	0.99
SSR-6235	46.00	4.00	0.98	0.04	1.00
SSR-6291	46.00	12.00	0.80	0.27	0.63
Mean	46.00	5.15	0.78	0.29	0.55

PIC = polymorphism information content.