Research Article

Diversity of Macro- and Micronutrients in the Seeds of Lentil Landraces

Table 4

Eigenvectors, eigenvalues, individual and cumulative percentages of variation explained by the first four principal components (PC) of 39 Turkish lentil landraces and 7 cultivars.

VariablesEigenvectors
PC1PC2PC3PC4

P (g kg−1) 0.42314 −0.15612 0.24258 0.19210
K (g kg−1) 0.35888 0.04938 0.40728 −0.22127
Mg (g kg−1) 0.39849 0.05795 0.20082 0.30920
Ca (g kg−1) 0.26304 −0.28293 −0.01273 −0.22216
Cu (mg kg−1) 0.30134 0.35831 0.20633 0.07484
Fe (mg kg−1) 0.29464 0.20119 −0.44493 −0.16168
Mn (mg kg−1) 0.16310 0.37360 −0.41613 −0.43299
Zn (mg kg−1) 0.41977 0.03678 −0.09768 −0.19881
Protein (%) 0.16797 0.10679 −0.46767 0.69840
SS (mm) −0.09087 0.55164 0.18896 0.14548
HSW (g) −0.21742 0.51408 0.23902 −0.03872

Eigenvalue 4.0595 2.2427 1.4401 0.9968
Percent 36.9049 20.3879 13.0920 9.0621
Cum. percent 36.9049 57.2927 70.3847 79.4468