Table 2.

Concentrations of selected metabolites in different seed tissues and somatic embryos of C. persicum [μg g^-1 DM].

	Testa	Endosperm	Zygotic embryo	Somatic embryo
Metabolite	n = 4	n = 3	n = 2	n = 4
Proline	0.63 + 0.12 ab	0.37 + 0.05 a	40.97 + 10.85 c	0.99 + 0.15 b
GABA	1.55 + 0.75 a	1.78 + 0.79 a	5.25 + 0.21 b	1.54 + 0.10 a
Fructose	1,750 + 345 b	120 + 24.2 a	974 + 658.2 b	1,213 + 251 b
Glucose	613 + 112 c	50.2 + 5.83 a	220 + 46 b	332 + 56 bc
Sucrose	11,439 + 673 a	8,212 + 965 a	62,566 + 6,251 c	27,660 + 1,808 b

Pairwise comparison of means by the Tukey test at p ≤ 0.05 within rows: means indicated by the same letter did not differ significantly. Given are mean + standard error of the mean of n replicates.