Table 1.

Changes of the genetic diversity during the evolutionary process from the wild to landrace and to released cultivar population (Unpublished data from Gai 2011)

Item	Wild soja	Landrace max	Released cultivar max
			Comparison to wild soybean	Comparison to landrace
Total alleles	1055	967	519	519
Alleles from (wild/landrace)	1055	627 (59.4%)	235 (22.3%)	281 (29.1%)
Alleles lost (wild/landrace)		428 (40.6%)	820 (77.7%)	686 (70.9%)
Alleles emerged (wild/landrace)		340 (35.2%)	284 (54.7%)	238 (45.9%)
Specific alleles	394 (37.3%)	259 (26.8%)	204 (39.8%)