Table 1. Light condition characteristics, and photosynthetic and biochemical properties in Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata cells.

	Blue		Blue-red		Blue-red-green		Red
	Low	High	Low	High	Low	High	Low
	(B-L)	(B-H)	(BR-L)	(BR-H)	(BRG-L)	(BRG-H)	(R-L)
PFD	250	450	250	450	250	450	250
Blue	250	450	200	360	105	189	0
Green	0	0	0	0	100	180	0
Red	0	0	50	90	45	81	250
Red : Blue	0	0	0.25	0.25	0.43	0.43	0
a*	2.51 (0.09)	1.46 (0.07)	2.69 (0.22)	2.89 (0.10)	1.97 (0.63)	1.22 (0.08)	4.44 (0.05)
PUR	2.47 (0.09)	2.4 (0.06)	2.27 (0.23)	4.39 (0.16)	1.49 (0.51)	1.95 (0.12)	1.11 (0.23)
relETRmax	2.72 (0.13)	1.66 (0.11)	3.61 (0.41)	3.45 (0.17)	2.13 (0.57)	1.07 (0.09)	2.63 (0.47)
α	6.7 (1.1)	3.8 (0.27)	7.3 (0.36)	7.1 (0.44)	4.9 (0.96)	3.0 (0.54)	13 (2.2)
Ek	408 (66)	431 (21)	497 (32)	491 (39)	472 (37)	363 (84)	200 (5)
POC	131 (37)	62 (8)	80 (5)	80 (5)	100 (8)	89 (5)	154 (28)
POC/PON	4.9 (0.52)	4.3 (0.63)	4.8 (0.27)	4.7 (0.37)	6.2 (0.76)	4.7 (0.05)	2.9 (0.19)
Chl a/POC	8.2 (4.8)	10.3 (2.9)	13.8 (2.6)	10.7 (1.5)	9.8 (2.2)	10.8 (0.9)	6.2 (2.5)

Blue, green and red fluence rates (µmol photon m⁻² s⁻¹) measured at light peak and red : blue ratio values for the different light conditions. a*×10^–11, absorption coefficient (m² cell⁻¹); PUR×10^–6, photosynthetically usable radiation (µW cell^–1); _relETR_max×10^–6, (maximal relative rate of linear electron transport, nmol e⁻¹ s⁻¹ cell⁻¹), α×10^–9 (maximum light use efficiency, nmol e⁻¹ s⁻¹ cell⁻¹(µmol photon m⁻² s⁻¹) ⁻¹), and Ek (light intensity for reaching _relETR_max, µmol photon m⁻² s⁻¹); POC, particulate organic carbon (pg cell⁻¹); POC/PON, particulate organic carbon (POC) to particulate organic nitrogen (PON) ratio (pg/pg); Chl a/POC×10^–3, Chlorophyll a to POC ratio (pg/pg). Data represent mean and standard deviation. For a* and PUR, n = 3; For _relETR_max, α and Ek, n = 6 (mean of the two days light peak measurements); For POC, PON, POC/PON and Chl a/POC, n = 21.