Table 4.

Multivariate tests (MANOVA) results for rice samples that considered as climatic zones, rice types and both

Element	Significance level
	Climatic zones	Rice types	Zone-types
Se	0.214	0.006	0.003
As	0.075	0.709	0.641
Cd	0.000	0.038	0.006
Li	0.047	0.554	0.127
B	0.132	0.250	0.189
Al	0.912	0.796	0.438
Cr	0.000	0.603	0.009
Mn	0.010	0.116	0.117
Fe	0.547	0.507	0.363
Co	0.917	0.000	0.936
Ni	0.050	0.077	0.795
Cu	0.183	0.009	0.020
Zn	0.000	0.621	0.032
Sr	0.003	0.139	0.053
Mo	0.082	0.773	0.256
Ba	0.000	0.090	0.015
Pb	0.404	0.018	0.971
Bi	0.338	0.254	0.240

Italic values indicate significance of p values; p < 0.05