Development of STS and CAPS markers for variety identification and genetic diversity analysis of tea germplasm in Taiwan

Botanical Studies

Table 4 The genetic diversity and genetic distance of different tea groups based on 10 cytoplasmic markers and 29 nuclear markers

Group	N	Cytoplasmic markers			Nuclear markers					MRD
		N_A	N_e	I	N_A	N_e	H_O	H	I	Mean	Min	Max
A and AS	14	1.80	1.32	0.32	2.34	1.66	0.35	0.34	0.55	0.41	0.08	0.58
S and SA	33	1.70	1.48	0.39	2.34	1.77	0.38	0.36	0.58	0.44	0.11	0.62
F and FY	8	1.10	1.03	0.04	1.72	1.24	0.16	0.15	0.26	0.25	0.11	0.39
C. sinensis	47	2.00	1.49	0.49	2.62	1.79	0.38	0.37	0.62	0.47	0.08	0.65
Total	55	2.00	1.48	0.48	2.69	1.81	0.35	0.39	0.66	0.49	0.08	0.69

Note: N, No. of germplasm; N_A, average observed number of alleles; N_e, average effective number of alleles; H_O, observed heterozygosity; H, Nei’s gene diversity; I, Shannon’s Information index; MRD, Modified Roger’s Distance; Mean, average MRD; Min, minimum MRD; Max, Maximum MRD.