01511naa a2200181 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000110006024501110007126000090018250000200019152009420021165300220115365300130117565300220118865300260121077300930123610757152011-04-14       2010    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d1 aEpagri  aGenetic divergence in sweet cassava cultivars using morphological agronomic traits RAPD molecular markers.  c2010  aISSN, 1516-8913  aIn this work the genetic divergence among 14 sweet cassava cultivars was estimated by their morphological agronomic traits and RAPD molecular markers. The Tocher cluster analysis and the Nearest Neighbor Method were applied. The most dissimilar cultivars were P??o and Gua??ra, F??cula Branca and P??o, and P??o and Caipira, while the most similar cultivar were the F??cula Branca and Branca 1, Branca 3 and Branca 1, and Gua??ra and Branca 1. The Jaccard?s coefficient showed that the most similar cultivars were Gua??ra and Quarenta Quilos, while the most dissimilar were Branca 3 and Amarela da Rama Cinza. The divergence analysis indicated that promising crosses could be made between the Branca 3 cultivar and the P??o, Amarela 1, F??cula Branca and Amarela 2 cultivars for the high genetic divergence, favorable agronomic and culinary traits, and disease resistance on the part of at least one of the parents involved in the cross.  aGenetic diversity  aMandioca  aManihot esculenta  aMultivariate analysis  tBrazilian Archives of Biology and Tecgnology, Curitibagv. 53, n. 6, p. 1477-1486, 2010.