Table 1.

The content (mg/100 g fresh weight) of chlorophylls and carotenoids in the young leaves of chlorotic (full sunlight) and non-chlorotic tea plants.

	Non-chlorotic plants	Chlorotic plants
Chlorophyll total	57.81 ± 0.98	4.50 ± 0.08
Chlorophyll-a	45.61 ± 0.18	1.71 ± 0.05
Chlorophyll-b	12.20 ± 0.80	2.79 ± 0.04
Carotenoids	30.40 ± 0.08	13.87 ± 0.21
Neoxanthin	5.82 ± 0.06	0.39 ± 0.01
Lutein	18.02 ± 1.20	3.58 ± 0.04
Violaxanthin	1.22 ± 0.04	0.57 ± 0.02
α-Carotene	1.34 ± 0.09	1.90 ± 0.19
β -Carotene	2.86 ± 0.05	4.18 ± 0.26
Zeaxanthin	1.14 ± 0.06	3.25 ± 0.06

Values shown are means ± SD (n = 3).

All the listed metabolites showed a significant difference between the within-row means at P < 0.05.