Table 1.

The Cd concentration in the seeds of 25 Chinese soybean cultivars under different Cd treatments in the pot-culture experiment (mg kg⁻¹ DW) (detection limits = 0.01 mg kg⁻¹).

Cultivars	Control	1.0 mg kg−1	2.5 mg kg−1
Shennong 6	0.19 ± 0.13a	0.58 ± 0.13	0.94 ± 0.10
Shennong 8	0.07 ± 0.01	0.33 ± 0.03	0.80 ± 0.10
Shennong 10	0.11 ± 0.05	0.14 ± 0.03	0.29 ± 0.03
Kenqianbei 4	0.17 ± 0.15	0.49 ± 0.01	1.38 ± 0.03
Taiwan 292	0.16 ± 0.02	0.39 ± 0.09	0.58 ± 0.03
Tiefeng 29	0.20 ± 0.01	0.59 ± 0.05	0.70 ± 0.05
Tiefeng 30	0.15 ± 0.03	0.93 ± 0.01	1.21 ± 0.06
Tiefeng 31	ND	0.09 ± 0.11	0.51 ± 0.07
Tiefeng 33	0.16 ± 0.01	0.48 ± 0.18	0.97 ± 0.27
Tiefeng 35	0.10 ± 0.04	0.28 ± 0.02	1.02 ± 0.02
Tiedou 36	0.08 ± 0.01	0.18 ± 0.01	0.88 ± 0.04
Tiefeng 37	0.08 ± 0.01	0.19 ± 0.21	1.13 ± 0.04
Kaiyu 11	0.19 ± 0.09	0.77 ± 0.11	0.99 ± 0.06
Kaiyu 12	0.09 ± 0.01	0.39 ± 0.08	1.28 ± 0.07
Kaiyu 13	0.11 ± 0.02	0.42 ± 0.01	0.55 ± 0.01
Kaijiao 8,157	0.18 ± 0.01	0.39 ± 0.01	0.59 ± 0.02
Ji 1,005	0.07 ± 0.01	0.29 ± 0.05	0.51 ± 0.02
Liaodou 21	ND	0.19 ± 0.01	0.65 ± 0.23
Liaodou 15	0.16 ± 0.01	0.58 ± 0.01	0.62 ± 0.08
Liaoxian 1	0.18 ± 0.05	0.62 ± 0.02	0.85 ± 0.06
Xinfeng 1	0.19 ± 0.17	0.51 ± 0.15	1.11 ± 0.12
Suke 1	0.13 ± 0.07	0.29 ± 0.04	0.44 ± 0.04
Beijiang 1	ND	0.46 ± 0.03	1.10 ± 0.20
Hefeng 40	0.18 ± 0.10	0.98 ± 0.08	2.06 ± 0.49
Heinong 48	0.17 ± 0.02	0.73 ± 0.09	1.19 ± 0.33

ND not detected.

^aMeans ± S.D. (n = 3).