Table 3.

Comparison of DNA fingerprinting methods (DAMD and ISSR) and details of their results and analyses computed for the A. calamus genotypes

Method	Number of genotypes	No. of primers used	Total no. of bands	No. of polymorphic bands	Polymorphism (%)	Average PIC	Genetic distance	Average distance	Diversity index	Effective multiplex ratio	Marker index
DAMD	27	6	70	22	31.4	0.09	0.00–0.23	0.12	0.28	1.15	0.32
ISSR	27	10	104	21	20.19	0.07	0.00–0.16	0.08	0.31	0.42	0.13
Cumulativea	27	16	174	43	24.71	0.08	0.01–0.18	0.09	0.32	0.71	0.23

^aCombined data of DAMD and ISSR