Table 4. Spatial analysis of molecular variance (K = 2) for cacao populations and the statistical analysis of molecular variance fixation indices corresponding to the groups.

Source of variation	df	SS	VC	Variation (%)	Fixation indices	P value
Among groups	1	1.61	0.1282	13.98	FSC = − 0.1115	0.7341
Among populations within groups	5	2.51	−0.0879	−9.59	FST = 0.0439	0.0068
Within populations	26	22.80	0.8765	95.61	FCT = 0.1398	0.1496
Total	32	26.91	0.9168

Notes.

df

degrees of freedom

SS

Sum of squares

VC

Variance components