Table 2.
Average Pairwise Genetic Distance of Gene Pools and Panicum samples.
| Upland Midwest (24) |
Upland Northern Great Plains (32) |
Upland Eastern Savanna (15) |
Lowland Atalantic Coastal Plain (9) |
Lowland Southern Great Plains (18) |
Lowland Western Gulf Coast (4) |
Hybrid-SPB (2) | Hybrid-HOF (1) | P. amarulum (1) | P. amarum (1) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upland Midwest | ||||||||||
| Upland Northern Great Plains | 0.1518 | |||||||||
| Upland Eastern Savanna | 0.1482 | 0.1529 | ||||||||
| Lowland Atalantic Coastal Plain | 0.1825 | 0.1794 | 0.1788 | |||||||
| Lowland Southern Great Plains | 0.1821 | 0.1773 | 0.1791 | 0.15 | ||||||
| Lowland Western Gulf Coast | 0.1742 | 0.1676 | 0.1699 | 0.1558 | 0.1425 | |||||
| Hybrid-SPB | 0.1605 | 0.1592 | 0.158 | 0.1572 | 0.1596 | 0.1545 | ||||
| Hybrid-HOF | 0.1621 | 0.1559 | 0.1615 | 0.1623 | 0.1581 | 0.1591 | 0.1603 | |||
| P.amarulum | 0.1748 | 0.1707 | 0.1715 | 0.1293 | 0.1479 | 0.1472 | 0.1489 | 0.1559 | ||
| P.amarum | 0.1856 | 0.182 | 0.1824 | 0.153 | 0.1503 | 0.1485 | 0.1629 | 0.1713 | 0.1434 | |
| P.anceps (1) | 0.3498 | 0.345 | 0.3551 | 0.3595 | 0.3314 | 0.346 | 0.3492 | 0.3448 | 0.356 | 0.3421 |
Parentheses indicate the number of samples included in each group. The lowland-upland hybrids are separated into population of origin. Note lowland Western Gulf Coast is more similar to upland ecotype gene pools than are are either other lowland ecotype gene pool.