“…The heterozygosity (Ho) per locus varied between 0.0000 (GA 013), 0.2179 (GA134), and 0.2436 (GA140) to 0.0833 (SSRY019), 0.8333 (GA 057), and 0.8718 (SSRY 050), with a mean of 0.6185, while the observed genetic divergence ranged from 0.5688 (GA 134), 0.5887 (SSRY 101), and 0.6145 (SSRY065) to 0.7417 (SSRY019) and 0.7424 (GA 131), with a mean of 0.6751 (Table 2). Similar results were found in other studies on genetic divergence of cassava plants using microsatellite loci, where the majority of alleles had frequencies below 0.95 [17,11,15,8,32,12,33,18,34,31].…”