Agromorphological Diversity and Disease Assessment of Grain Amaranth in Lamjung, Nepal

Table 5

Diversity indices of 21 qualitative traits in amaranth.

S.N.	Characters	Shannon–Weaver’s index	Simpson’s index of diversity	Evenness
1	Growth habit	0.00	0.00	0.00
2	Branching index	1.24	0.74	0.89
3	Stem pigmentation	1.36	0.74	0.70
4	Stem pubescence	0.56	0.41	0.51
5	Stem surface	0.69	0.55	1.00
6	Spines in leaf axil	0.00	0.00	0.00
7	Leaf margin	1.03	0.68	0.74
8	Prominence of leaf veins	0.64	0.48	0.92
9	Leaf pigmentation	1.23	0.67	0.54
10	Leaf pubescence	0.56	0.41	0.51
11	Leaf shape	1.33	0.79	0.83
12	Leaf blade blotch	0.56	0.41	0.81
13	Petiole pigmentation	1.13	0.68	0.70
14	Petiole length	0.00	0.00	0.00
15	Terminal inflorescence shape	1.42	0.79	0.88
16	Inflorescence color	1.68	0.86	0.73
17	Terminal inflorescence attitude	0.69	0.55	1.00
18	Presence of axillary inflorescence	0.56	0.41	0.81
19	Inflorescence length	0.56	0.41	0.51
20	Inflorescence compactness	0.68	0.53	0.62
21	Seed color	1.42	0.79	0.68