Introduction Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.), which is also known as pseudo-grain, is an annual plant that has been cultivated for thousands of years in the Andes (Cusack, 1984). The seeds of quinoa are rich in protein, minerals, carbohydrates, and antioxidant compounds when compared to cereals, such as corn, oats, rice, and wheat (Repo-Carrasco et al., 2011; Stikic et al., 2012; Ruiz et al., 2014), and they are usually utilized as human food (Bhargava et al., 2007). Therefore, quinoa has been evaluated in terms of its seed performance in most of the previouslyconducted scientific studies (