Genetic Diversity of Coffee Genotypes Using Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) Markers

Coffee plays an important role in the global economy, human health and society. It is one of major cash crops constituting backbone Nigerian economy before emergence re-emergence petroleum oil. Molecular markers are reliable valuable tool for analyzing polymorphism, screening selection desirable genotypes breeding programs. The study aimed at determining genetic diversity among coffee genotypes. Fifty (Coffea spp) collected from Cocoa Research Institute Nigeria (CRIN) germplasm were assessed using 12 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. findings revealed that polymorphic information content (PIC) ranged between 0.311 0.882 with average 0.545. gene (0.602) was high Unweighted Pair Group Method Analysis arithmetic averages (UPGMA) dendrogram grouped into four clusters subclusters. results levels polymorphism indicating confirm uniqueness