The RFLP and SSR polymorphism information content
(PIC) means were higher than the RAPD and AFLP
means (Figure 1). Differences in the distribution profiles
also occurred between dominant and codominant markers,
with dominant markers having higher standard deviations
than codominant markers. The differences between minimum
and maximum PIC values were lower for RFLP and
SSR than for AFLP and RAPD. The RFLP markers gave the highest mean PIC value for all loci (PIC = 0.96) and the
SSR markers the second highest (PIC = 0.89), with the
dominant RAPD (PIC = 0.75) and AFLP (PIC = 0.73)
markers having mean PIC values of almost the same magnitude