The seed protein banding patterns obtained by electrophoresis
have been successfully used to resolve taxonomic
and evolutionary relationships among crops and their wild
relatives and also to determine genetic homology at the
molecular level (Khoshroo et al. 2011). The mean Nei’s gene
diversity of Korean soybean lines calculated in the previous
studies were 0.194 by allozyme markers (Han et al. 1999),
0.37 by RAPD (Li and Nelson 2001), and 0.655 by SSR
markers (Cho et al. 2008). Even though the amount of genetic
diversity obtained from biochemical markers were less
than the molecular markers, these biochemical markers can
be useful in selecting the lines with desirable traits for the
future crop development.