Table 2. Comparison of the diversity indices between smaller diverse representative set and geographically diverse set of 160 accessions of Secale cereale subsp. cereale.

	Size	Average PIC	Average I-index†	Average GD‡
Geographically diverse Set	160	0.26	0.60	0.48
Smaller representative set	32	0.25	0.59	0.51
T-test (p-value)		0.02	0.11	1.90e-90*

†Shannon’s diversity index

‡Pairwise genetic dissimilarity

*Significant at α <0.01.