3.2. Data Analyses
Descriptive statistics was done using PROC UNIVARIATE procedure in SAS ver. 9.3
(SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA [41]). Correlations among morphological traits measured were
analyzed using PROC CORR procedure in SAS. Shannon-Weaver diversity index (H) was used to
calculate the phenotypic diversity of the characterized farmers’ varieties following the protocol used
by Sotto and Rabara [42]. An arbitrary scale was adapted from Jamago and Cortes [43] to categorize
the computed indices into maximum (H = 1.00), high (H = 0.76–0.99), moderate (H = 0.46–0.75) and