Table 4.

Summary of population genetic diversity indices averaged over 24 SSR markers

Population	N	NA	NE	NP	I	HO	HE	%PL
U. brizantha	17	3.50	2.74	1.53	0.94	0.69	0.47	68.75
U. humidicola	15	2.70	2.37	1.03	0.77	0.58	0.40	57.81
U. bovonei	2	0.94	0.69	0.22	0.25	0.31	0.17	31.25
U. ruziziensis	1	0.34	0.34	0.08	0.12	0.17	0.09	17.19
U. jubata	1	0.59	0.59	0.28	0.21	0.30	0.15	29.67
Urochloa Cultivars	6	1.61	1.48	0.66	0.52	0.46	0.30	46.88
Mean	8.4	1.89	1.64	0.76	0.56	0.49	0.31	41.93
SE (±)	0.13	0.12	0.10	0.12	0.03	0.03	0.02	7.90

N number of accessions, N_A number of alleles, N_E number of effectives alleles, I information index, H_O observed heterozygosity, H_E expected heterozygosity, N_P number of private alleles, %PL percentage of polymorphic loci