Table 4.

Antioxidant activity in shoots of two morphotypes of Cakile maritima.

Leaf morphotype	ABTS assay			FRAP assay			DPPH assay Hydrophilic
	Hydrophilic	Lipophilic	Total	Hydrophilic	Lipophilic	Total
	(µmol T.E. g-1 FW)3
Entire - EL	12.4 a1 (± 0.5)	0.88 a (± 0.03)	13.2 a (± 0.5)	3.1 b (± 0.2)	0.08 a (± 0.01)	3.2 b (± 0.23)	7.6 b (± 0.5)
Pinnatifid - PL	11.4 b (± 0.3)	0.86 a (± 0.03)	12.2 a (± 0.4)	3.6 a (± 0.1)	0.06 b (± 0.01)	3.7 a (± 0.1)	10.7 a (± 0.4)
Significance2	ns	ns	ns	**	***	**	***

¹ Means (± standard error) in columns not sharing the same letters are significantly different according to the LSD test (p=0.05).

² Significance: ***, and **, respectively, for p ≤ 0.001, and p ≤ 0.01; ns, not significant.

³ T.E., trolox equivalent.