Table 4.

Clustering of 120 Amaranths species. of genotypes into 5 clusters using the mean of 24 agro-morphological quantitative characters.

Cluster	Number of genotypes	Genotypes comprised	Collection Region
I	10	208683, 240814, 209057 225715, 208764, KEN-014, KEN-010, KAZ-060, KEN-011, KEN-016	South Nation Nationality People's Regional State and Oromia.
II	39	ALE-074, KAZ-078, KAZ-057, KEN-020, KAZ-076,204645,ALE-068, KAZ-059, KAZ-055, 240813, KAZ-008, KAZ-009, ALE-023, 225718, 211457, ALE-073, KAZ-077, KEN-015, 212581, 91001, KAZ-058, KEN-064, KEN-021, 225717, AC-NL, KAZ-056, 211455, KAZ-079, ALE-034, 204644, ALE-025, DRA-053, 91003, 212893, ALE-071, ALE-070, YRC-048, ALE-075, ALE-069	South Nation Nationality, Amhara, Released Varieties, and Oromia.
III	16	SAA-004, HA-003, DA-006, BA-016, SRA-002, K3A-005, SA-025/07, SA-008/07, SA-001/07, SHIA-007, SA-005/07, DAL-042, HA-008, BA-001, WA-001, WA-003	Afar and Sidama
IV	22	212890, CHU-045, 215567, 209056, 242533, KEN-065, 219284, 242917, 242530, 242532, SHD-001, 212892, 208025, MEK-084, KEN-022, MAND, KEN-067, 240815, KAZ-007, KEN-019, DMG-038, KEN-018	South Nation NationalityPeople RegionalState, Sidama, Benishangul & Gumuz, Amhara, Tigray, and Released varieties.
V	33	MEK-081, BKD-031, OTI-044, KEN-012, WON-049,242534, 211456, 241764, MEK-082, 242531, ALE-033, DIL-050, KAZ-006, BKD-027, BKD-029, ALE-024, DAL-043, HAW-041, BKD-028, MEK-083, 212583, KEN-017, HAL-039, MEK-080, SHL-040, ABL-004, KEN-013, DUF-003, 225713, 212582, ADZ-037, YRB-002,BNT-026	Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples, Released varieties, Tigray, Amhara, Oromia, Sidama, Benishangul & Gumuz.