Lentil, one of the most important legume crops, is well known for its high nutritional and economic values. Ethiopia fails to meet its domestic lentil demand, although it is one of the centers of lentil diversity. Thus, understanding the existing genetic diversity of lentil accessions is essential to develop effective breeding programs. There is dearth of information on the genetic diversity of landrace and released varieties in Ethiopia using SSR markers. Therefore, the genetic diversity of 130 lentil accessions was assessed using 12 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. A total of 57 alleles with overall average of 4.75 alleles per locus were detected. The results revealed the existence of considerable genetic variation within and among lentil populations with an overall mean value of 0.49 gene diversity (h) and the highest (0.51) polymorphic information content (PIC). The resolving power of markers, PIC, indicated that all markers used in this study were highly informative, with average values of 0.40. SSR 317–2 and SSR 28 were the most informative loci with the highest (0.51) PIC value. Analysis of molecular variance revealed moderate genetic variation of within (95 %) and among (5 %) populations. The principal coordinate analysis showed the overall variation of 53.67 % and grouped the populations into three clusters. The UPGMA, neighbor-joining tree, and STRUCTURE analysis grouped the populations into four clusters. The population structure revelated that the lentil populations under the study were shared alleles from 4 subgroups (K = 4), showing higher genetic admixture. The overall genetic variations within landrace populations were larger than released variety and ICARDA populations. In this study, significant genetic variations across lentil populations which can serve as a starting point for upcoming breeding initiatives have been obtained.
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