Shoot tip culture: a step towards 13C metabolite flux analysis of sink leaf metabolism

Table 2 Production of photosynthetic pigments (mg g⁻¹ leaf fresh weight) in leaves from 15 DALV

Light intensities	Chlorophyll (mg g⁻¹)			Chl (a/b)	Carotenoids (mg g⁻¹)
Light intensities	Chl a	Chl b	Total (a + b)	Chl (a/b)	Carotenoids (mg g⁻¹)
5 µmol/m²/s	1.11 ± 0.09^a	0.66 ± 0.02^a	1.77 ± 0.11^a	1.68^a	0.23 ± 0.02^a
10 µmol/m²/s	1.15 ± 0.04^a	0.76 ± 0.08^a	1.91 ± 0.11^a	1.52^a	0.20 ± 0.01^a
20 µmol/m²/s	1.27 ± 0.05^ab	1.12 ± 0.04^b	2.38 ± 0.04^b	1.13^b	0.20 ± 0.02^a
30 µmol/m²/s	1.46 ± 0.11^b	1.20 ± 0.07^b	2.66 ± 0.09^c	1.21^b	0.22 ± 0.05^a

Shoot tip culture reared under different light intensities (mean ± standard error, n = 5). For statistics, data were evaluated by one-way Anova, followed by Tukey HSD test and statistical difference (p < 0.05) was indicated by different letters

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