Table I.

Protein, chlorophyll, anthocynanin and starch contents of 3-week-old rimb mutants grown under long-day illumination (14 h light/10 h dark; harvest: 3 h after onset of light)

Significant differences to T19-2 (Student's t test; P < 0.05) are indicated by an asterisk.

	Protein	Chlorophyll	Anthocyanin E530 corr	Starch
	mg g−1 fresh weight	mg g−1 fresh weight	g−1 fresh weight	μmol Glc g−1 fresh weight
T19-2	12.58 ± 0.62	0.769 ± 0.084	19.40 ± 1.36	5.21 ± 1.39
rimb1	12.52 ± 0.38	0.761 ± 0.046	21.36 ± 0.95*	6.60 ± 1.53*
rimb2	12.85 ± 0.19	0.722 ± 0.063	21.01 ± 1.43*	7.08 ± 1.50*
rimb3	12.29 ± 0.57	0.641 ± 0.057*	21.07 ± 2.57	12.54 ± 3.15*
rimb5	12.28 ± 1.02	0.604 ± 0.101*	23.87 ± 2.46*	23.31 ± 3.37*
rimb6	12.82 ± 1.27	0.727 ± 0.055	32.44 ± 4.27*	29.16 ± 4.92*
rimb7	13.02 ± 0.91	0.766 ± 0.099	20.00 ± 1.29	8.68 ± 2.61*
n	7	5	8	10