Table 2.

Effect of various LED lights on some antioxidant compounds of four-week-old C. frutescens seedlings

Parameters	Full	White	Red	Blue	Red-Blue
Ascorbic acid (mg 100 g− 1 FW)	58.12 ± 4.23 c	61.43 ± 2.21 c	89.58 ± 3.45 a	75.34 ± 5.98 ab	82.45 ± 3.11 a
Carotenoids (µg g− 1 FW)	7.81 ± 0.67 b	9.42 ± 0.77 ab	10.34 ± 0.91 c	11.78 ± 0.55 a	10.03 ± 0.66 b
Phenolics (mg GAE g− 1 DW)	0.13 ± 0.005 c	0.15 ± 0.006 bc	0.22 ± 0.007 a	0.17 ± 0.008 b	0.20 ± 0.009 ab
Capsaicinoids (mg g− 1 FW)	1.72 ± 0.09 c	2.23 ± 0.17 b	2.73 ± 0.11 a	2.49 ± 0.18 ab	2.68 ± 0.12 a

Values are means ± SE of four replicates. Different letters indicated significant (p ≤ 0.05) differences