Table 2. Summary of germplasm screening of 2803 pea accessions, indicating four principal eIF4E intron 3 length variants (A-B-C and S), distribution in total numbers and percentage over 13 geographical regions.
| Regions | Percentage | |||||||||
| Number of accesions | A variant | B variant | C variant | S variant | A variant | B variant | C variant | S variant | ||
| Ethiopia - East Africa | 349 | 7 | 101 | 21 | 220 | 2.0 | 28.9 | 6.0 | 63.0 | |
| Afghanistan-Pakistan | 178 | 1 | 41 | 11 | 125 | 0.6 | 23.0 | 6.2 | 70.2 | |
| India-Nepal | 145 | 14 | 29 | 24 | 78 | 9.7 | 20.0 | 16.6 | 53.8 | |
| China-Mongolia | 271 | 1 | 99 | 1 | 170 | 0.4 | 36.5 | 0.4 | 62.7 | |
| Turkey-Syria | 64 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 60 | 0.0 | 4.7 | 1.6 | 93.8 | |
| Israel-Lebanon-Jordan | 28 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 20 | 0.0 | 25.0 | 3.6 | 71.4 | |
| Balkan | 75 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 63 | 1.3 | 5.3 | 9.3 | 84.0 | |
| Russia-Caucassus | 295 | 1 | 19 | 2 | 273 | 0.3 | 6.4 | 0.7 | 92.5 | |
| Iberian Peninsula | 36 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 25 | 0.0 | 5.6 | 25.0 | 69.4 | |
| Australia-New Zealand | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | |
| South America | 25 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 8.0 | 20.0 | 8.0 | 64.0 | |
| Europe | 1145 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 1108 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 96.8 | |
| USA-Canada | 181 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 162 | 6.1 | 1.7 | 2.8 | 89.5 | |
| Total | 2803 | 53 | 328 | 91 | 2331 | Average | 1.9 | 11.7 | 3.2 | 83.2 |