Table 2.

Mean number of different alleles (Na), number of effective alleles (Ne), Shannon’s Information Index I (H), expected Heterozygosity (He) and percentage of Polymorphic Loci (% P) of native rhizobia populations from Eastern Kenya based on ARDRA analyses.

Population	Na	Ne	I(H)	He	% P
ELM	1.92 ± 0.08	1.55 ± 0.10	0.47 ± 0.07	0.32 ± 0.05	92.31
EUM	1.54 ± 0.18	1.39 ± 0.11	0.33 ± 0.08	0.22 ± 0.06	61.54
TLM	1.54 ± 0.18	1.37 ± 0.12	0.31 ± 0.08	0.21 ± 0.06	61.54
TUM	1.62 ± 0.18	1.41 ± 0.10	0.37 ± 0.08	0.25 ± 0.05	69.23

ELM, Embu Lower Midland; EUM, Embu Upper Midland; TLM, Tharaka Nithi Lower Midland; TUM, Tharaka Nithi Upper Midland.