Cultivation of New Emerging Agro-Nutritional Crop of Quinoa at Madinat al-Hikmah Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Table 3: Comparison of concentration and total percent yield of major seed storage proteins (SSPs) in the three cultivars of Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) and market available control seeds.

SAMPLE	ALBUMIN (Alb)		GLOBULIN (Glo)		PROLAMIN (Pro)		GLUTELIN (Glut)
	(mg/g) ^{^a}	% yield ^{^b}	mg/g	% yield	mg/g	% yield	mg/g	% yield
Control Seeds	0.46 ± 0.10	35.58%	0.38 ± 0.06	37.68%	0.25 ±0.03	17.83%	0.17 ± 0.01	12.69%
White	0.74 ± 0.06	48.50%	0.44 ± 0.03	27.50%	0.25 ± 0.03	14.92%	0.20 ± 0.01	11.39%
Orange	0.95 ± 0.24	49.41%	0.43 ± 0.01	25.43%	0.31 ± 0.01	16.11%	0.21 ± 0.01	11.70%
Red	0.87 ± 0.14	51.60%	0.41 ± 0.02	24.41%	0.26 ± 0.04	15.41%	0.20 ± 0.01	11.89%

^a Concentrations in mg/g of seed flour. Values are mean of three independent extractions in triplicates ±SD. ^b % yield of a particular protein in total protein contents of seed flour.