Table 5.

Correlation between morphological traits (root and epicotyl lengths) and metabolites’ content for non-treatment (NT) and treatment (T) conditions in lentil.

	NT			T
	Rsquare	F ratio	Prob>F	Rsquare	F ratio	Prob>F
root
glutamic acid	0.59	23.3136	***	0.58	21.8476	***
phenyl-alanine	0.57	21.5170	***	0.59	22.9594	***
serine	0.48	14.9386	**	0.55	19.3472	***
threonine	0.46	13.4167	**	0.60	24.0136	***
valine	0.54	18.9432	***	0.68	33.4161	****
GABA	0.56	20.2050	***	0.58	22.5488	***
cadaverine	0.47	14.4070	**	0.56	20.2655	***
aconitic acid	0.84	85.9923	****	0.81	66.5183	****
isocitric acid	0.53	18.542	***	0.53	17.9766	***
malic acid	0.41	11.0871	**	0.49	15.5868	**
phosphate	0.64	28.2451	****	0.80	64.5236	****
gluconic acid	0.51	16.8544	***	0.64	28.9313	****
galactose	0.58	21.7833	***	0.02	0.3201	n.s.
tetradecanoic acid	0.18	3.6104	n.s.	0.61	25.6549	****
g-tocopherol	0.74	46.8317	****	0.63	27.0844	****
epycotil
glutamic acid	0.01	0.1029	n.s.	0.46	8.4203	*
threonine	0.36	5.6115	*	0.45	8.1870	*
mannitol	0.05	0.5158	n.s.	0.90	91.6580	****
myo-inositol	0.88	73.3935	****	0.88	72.3606	****
maltitol	0.07	0.7920	n.s.	0.74	28.6942	***
ribose	0.16	1.9234	n.s.	0.66	19.1955	**

* P< 0.05; ** p< 0.01; *** p< 0.001; **** p< 0.0001; n.s., not significant.