39mgkg?1, and the mean was 63.61mgkg?1. The seven selleckchem Bortezomib cultivars had a mean Fe concentration of 58.94mgkg?1 and the range was 49.40 to 69.90mgkg?1. The Diy-Kulp, Kahmar1, and Mar-K?z landraces had the highest Fe levels and the Diy-Haz, Gantep-Niz, and ??r-Ciz landraces had the lowest Fe levels. The average Zn concentration of the landraces was 55.01mgkg?1 and the range was 42.30 to 73.10mgkg?1. The Kahmar1, Ad?y-kah2, and Diy-Kulp landraces had the highest Zn levels. The mean Mn contents of the landraces and cultivars were 13.43mgkg?1 and 13.49mgkg?1, respectively, and the ranges for all landraces and cultivars were 11.5 to 16.2 and from 11.5 to 15.4mgkg?1. The Kahmar2 and Ad?y-Kah2 landraces had the highest Mn levels, and the Diy-Haz and Mar-K?z1 landraces had the lowest Mn levels (Table 2).
The mean protein content of the landraces was 25.60% and the range was 22.72 to 31.88%. The ??r-Kum, ?urfa-Vir, Kahmar1, and Kahmar2 landraces had the highest protein content, and the Diy-Haz, Diy-O?l, and Diy2 landraces had the lowest protein content. The 100-seed weight of the Turkish landraces ranged from 1.68 to 4.03g with a mean of 2.8g. The ??r-Sil2, Diy-Krcd, and Mar-K?z5 landraces had the greatest 100-seed weight, and the Diy-Kulp, Diy-Dic2, and Batman landraces had the lowest 100-seed weight. The seed size of the landraces ranged from 3.99 to 5.14mm, with a mean of 4.5mm (Table 1). 3.1. Seed Mineral AssociationTable 3 shows the correlation coefficients among the different mineral contents and other traits in the 39 landraces and 7 cultivars.
Correlation analysis indicated numerous significant positive and negative correlations. The large number of observations increased the test power, giving significance to most of the correlations. Hence, only results with r-values greater than 0.4 are discussed here. Seed P content was positively correlated with K, Mg, Ca, Cu, Zn (P < 0.01 for all), and Fe (P < 0.05). K was positively correlated with Cu and Zn (P < 0.01 for both). Mg was positively correlated with Cu and Zn (P < 0.01). Ca was positively correlated with Zn (P < 0.01) but negatively correlated with seed size and 100-seed weight (P < 0.05 and 0.01 for both). Cu was positively correlated with Zn, Fe, and seed size (P < 0.01, 0.01 and 0.05 resp.). Fe had a strong positive correlation with Mn (P < 0.01), Zn (P < 0.01), and protein content (P < 0.01).
Mn was positively correlated with Zn (r = 0.40, P < 0.01). Zn was negatively correlated with seed size and seed yield (P < 0.05 for both). Seed size had a strong positive correlation with 100-seed weight (r = 0.71, P < 0.01). Table 3Correlation AV-951 coefficients between seed macro- and microelement concentrations among lentil landraces and cultivars.Finally, we used PCA to assess the patterns of variations by considering all variables simultaneously.