Table 4.

Amino Acid Levels in Control (M82) and Transgenic Ripe Fruit Pericarp Tissue

Amino Acid	M82	8117	7817	7949
Asp	6.62 ± 0.56	5.36 ± 0.58	5.88 ± 0.65	5.32 ± 0.31
Glu	10.10 ± 1.05	6.59 ± 1.00	9.24 ± 1.64	7.11 ± 1.01
Asn	3.30 ± 0.14	3.79 ± 0.15	2.66 ± 0.37	3.41 ± 0.15
Ser	1.05 ± 0.08	1.41 ± 0.41	1.58 ± 0.15	1.40 ± 0.14
Gln	17.02 ± 0.81	19.81 ± 0.92	16.78 ± 1.50	18.07 ± 0.85
Gly	0.21 ± 0.04	0.48 ± 0.07	0.56 ± 0.07*	0.50 ± 0.10*
Thr	1.99 ± 0.16	1.94 ± 0.10	1.77 ± 0.10	1.81 ± 0.11
His	0.13 ± 0.01	0.26 ± 0.04	0.12 ± 0.01	0.15 ± 0.02
Ala	1.96 ± 0.31	3.17 ± 0.47	2.83 ± 0.64	1.85 ± 0.23
Arg	0.86 ± 0.10	0.43 ± 0.14*	0.52 ± 0.04	0.80 ± 0.10
Tyr	0.27 ± 0.06	0.25 ± 0.03	0.21 ± 0.03	0.21 ± 0.01
Val	1.17 ± 0.17	1.13 ± 0.12	0.89 ± 0.07	1.21 ± 0.14
Met	0.19 ± 0.02	0.03 ± 0.01*	0.06 ± 0.02*	0.08 ± 0.02*
Trp	0.57 ± 0.11	0.49 ± 0.11	0.44 ± 0.07	0.65 ± 0.08
Phe	0.88 ± 0.09	0.29 ± 0.04*	0.14 ± 0.06*	0.67 ± 0.14
Ile	0.72 ± 0.12	0.70 ± 0.09	0.61 ± 0.11	0.89 ± 0.12
Leu	0.63 ± 0.07	0.37 ± 0.04*	0.51 ± 0.06	0.56 ± 0.07
Lys	0.59 ± 0.04	0.31 ± 0.03*	0.44 ± 0.04	0.51 ± 0.06

Each point (μg/g FW ± se) is an average of 6 to 12 independent fruits samples. Asterisk indicates significant difference from M82 (P < 0.05). Statistical analysis was performed by one-way ANOVA followed by Dunnett test.