Table 1.

Diversity in avocado trees grown from seeds in eight districts in southern highlands of Tanzania

Locus name	Repeats	Na	Ne	Ho	He	I	HW	PIC
AVAG05a	(AG)10	17	3.84	0.54	0.74	1.73	***	0.70
AVAG22a	(GA)15	23	9.59	0.71	0.90	2.59	***	0.89
AVMIX01a	(AT)7,(AG)12	16	8.96	0.68	0.89	2.40	***	0.88
ESTAVGA03b	(TC)20	14	8.32	0.78	0.88	2.31	***	0.87
LMAV02 b	(AC)8(AG)14	20	6.81	0.54	0.85	2.30	***	0.84
LMAV14 b	(AGAGGG)4(AG)3	19	7.94	0.46	0.87	2.33	***	0.86
LMAV24 b	(AG)15	11	4.34	0.69	0.77	1.79	*	0.75
LMAV29 b	(CTT)8(CT)11	20	7.35	0.67	0.86	2.32	NS	0.85
LMAV31 b	(GA)21	17	7.02	0.82	0.86	2.20	NS	0.84
LMAV35 b	(GAA)5(GA)14	10	3.99	0.62	0.75	1.69	*	0.72
Mean		16.70	6.81	0.65	0.84	2.17		0.82
Standard error		1.30	0.66	0.04	0.02	0.10		0.02

*, ** and *** indicate significance of p value at p < 0.05, ≤0.01 and ≤ 0.001, respectively whereas NS indicates the non-significance of the p value after Bonferroni correction. ^a = from [24] ^b = from [25]

Na: Observed number of alleles

Ne: Effective number of alleles [26]

Ho: Observed heterozygosity

He: Nei’s [27] expected heterozygosity

I: Shannon information index [28]

HW: Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium test

PIC: Polymorphism information content