Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Serbian Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Collection during a 40-Year Long Breeding Period

Determination of genetic diversity and population structure breeding material is an important prerequisite for discovering novel valuable alleles aimed at crop improvement. This study’s main objective was to characterize a collection representing 40-year long historical period barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) breeding, using microsatellites, pedigree, phenotypic data. The set 90 genotypes phenotyped during three growing seasons genotyped with 338 polymorphic alleles. indicators showed differentiation changes throughout the periods. discriminated into distinctive groups. principal coordinate analysis grouped according their growth habit row type. An variance (ANOVA) that almost all investigated traits varied significantly between types, seasons, A positive effect on yield progress could be partly attributed shorter plants, which reduced lodging thus provided higher stability. revealed considerable level based microsatellite data without tendency erosion history implied dynamic in backgrounds, providing great gene pool suitable further