“…In hemp, previous studies on genetic diversity assessment have utilized RAPD markers (Faeti et al, 1996;Forapani et al, 2001;Mandolino and Ranalli, 2002). Microsatellite markers, in particular, have attracted interest as a tool to assess genetic diversity in a range of plant species, including those that are diecious (Barker et al, 2003;Teixeira et al, 2009;Dering et al, 2016;Szczecińska et al, 2016;Zhai et al, 2016;Kumar and Agrawal, 2019). Measures of genetic variability are expressed as the percent of polymorphic loci (P), number of alleles per locus (A), expected and observed heterozygosity (H E , H O ) and number of alleles per polymorphic loci (AP).…”