Agro-Morphological and Molecular Variability among Algerian Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.) Accessions

Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) Algerian accessions represent an essential source of traits interest for crop improvement, especially tackling climate change, because their genetic background and potential have not been well studied. The purpose this research was to assess the variability 14 by means 10 agro-morphological 7 simple sequence repeat markers (SSRs). ANOVA analysis showed a large significant phenotypic variation in fruit setting (FS), seed length (SL), width (SW), 100-seeds weight (HSW), which arose as main discriminant characters revealed principal component (PCA). In addition, SSR identified total twenty different alleles within our collection with mean 2.85 per locus. polymorphism information content (PIC) ranged from 0.32 0.58, 0.44. Observed heterozygosity (Ho) 0.57 1.00 0.72, while expected one (He) varied 0.42 0.67, reaching 0.57. Based on molecular data, were clustered according geographical pattern, also confirmed coordinate (PCoA). Moreover, AMOVA highlighted that most overall result strong differentiation among (84%). Finally, Mantel test there no substantial correlation between (r = −0.025, p > 0.05). These findings first step toward breeding programs establishment Algeria, indicating exhibited optimal agro- diversity identify specific useful Mediterranean environment.