Table 2 Phenotypic traits variation and diversity indices statistics of the three clusters obtained from the combined phenotypic and genotypic matrices.

Variables	Traits	Cluster 1		Cluster 2		Cluster 3
Variables	Traits	Average	STD	Average	STD	Average	STD
Phenotypic	Senescence class	4.05	0.34	4.14	0.25	4.07	0.49
	Tuber texture	1.54	0.28	1.66	0.22	1.37	0.25
	Tuber shape	2.92	0.21	2.88	0.33	2.76	0.22
	Tuber appearance	1.86	0.19	1.83	0.22	2.00	0.21
	Tuber cracks	0.13	0.16	0.20	0.21	0.25	0.22
	Number of big tubers	1.25	0.46	1.00	0.58	0.77	0.43
	Number of medium tubers	1.52	0.40	1.38	0.53	1.42	0.44
	Number of small tubers	2.09	1.30	2.03	0.88	2.32	1.12
	Number of stems	1.48	0.29	1.35	0.25	1.32	0.21
	Stem girth	4.23	0.34	4.02	0.34	3.98	0.36
	Total tuber Weight	3.37	0.85	2.74	0.94	2.41	0.73
	Total tuber number	4.55	1.38	4.08	1.11	4.05	0.98
	Weight of big tubers	2.16	0.94	1.80	1.09	1.37	0.72
	Weight of medium tubers	1.19	0.32	1.07	0.35	1.10	0.43
	Weight of small tubers	0.54	0.28	0.53	0.22	0.61	0.25
	Yam anthracnose disease	2.44	0.11	2.50	0.12	2.63	0.15
	Yam mosaic virus	2.25	0.10	2.36	0.18	2.45	0.17
	Tuber hairiness	2.39	0.22	2.34	0.25	2.18	0.16
	Length of big tubers	23.31	5.98	19.25	7.67	17.39	8.01
	Length of medium tubers	21.00	2.63	17.76	4.34	19.62	4.16
	Length of small tubers	13.42	2.72	13.02	3.30	13.84	2.39
	Width of big tubers	27.65	4.67	23.15	9.22	20.66	9.04
	Width of medium tubers	22.04	3.11	21.47	4.57	21.40	3.59
	Width of small tubers	14.31	2.72	15.16	3.45	15.25	2.52
Genotypic	Minor Allele frequency	0.24	0.25	0.22
	Major allele frequency	0.76	0.75	0.78
	Observed heterozygosity	0.39	0.37	0.38
	Expected heterozygosity	0.32	0.34	0.29
	Polymorphism information content	0.25	0.27	0.23

Big tuber (tuber with weight ≥1 kg), medium tuber (Tuber with weight ≥0.5 kg but less than 1 kg) small tuber (Tuber with weight less than 0.5 kg); STD (Standard deviation).

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