2.4. Data analysis
SSR bands were converted into a mathematical matrix, and the genetic diversity parameters, such as the number of
different alleles (A), expected heterozygosities (He), and Shannon information index (I) were estimated using the software
GenAlEX 6.5 (Peakall and Smouse, 2006, 2012). For chloroplast DNA sequence analysis, the number of haplotypes and
polymorphic sites were used to quantify the genetic variation within each population.