American (NA), 36 European (EU), 9 South American (SA) and 8 Australian (AU) varieties
were characterized using multiple microsatellite loci. The 42 SSR primers amplified 278
alleles across the 175 barley accessions tested in the present study. The average gene
diversity for the whole sample was 0.3387 whereas the mean value for the each population
was as follows: TB= 0.3286, SY= 0.2474, EU= 0.299, AU= 0.2867, NA= 0.3138, SA= 0.2536 …