TITLE:
Genetic Diversity Analysis of Coffee (Coffee arabica L.) Germplasm Accessions Growing in the Southwestern Saudi Arabia Using Quantitative Traits
AUTHORS:
Taieb Tounekti, Mosbah Mahdhi, Turki Ali Al-Turki, Habib Khemira
KEYWORDS:
Coffea arabica, Cluster Analysis, Genetic Diversity, Principal Component Analysis
JOURNAL NAME:
Natural Resources,
Vol.8 No.5,
May
23,
2017
ABSTRACT: Coffee (Coffea arabica) is an economically important crop cultivated on the terraced slopes and narrow valleys of the mountains in the south-western Saudi Arabia. The objective of the study was to evaluate genetic diversity among nineteen coffee accessions collected from different coffee growing areas based on quantitative morphological and pomological traits. Data of 17 quantitative traits were collected and subjected to various statistical analyses. The analysis of variance showed significant differences (P