Table II.
Pigment composition of the free-pigment fractions (fraction 1) after Suc-gradient ultracentrifugation of solubilized thylakoid membranes
| Pigment |
V. major from GCs
|
V. major from OD
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | Stress | Recovery | Control | Stress | Recovery | |
| % in free pigment band | % in free pigment band | |||||
| Chl a | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 1.4 |
| Chl b | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| Neoxanthin | 4.2 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 4.4 | 2.5 | 2.9 |
| Lutein | 9.3 | 11.9 | 8.7 | 5.2 | 8.6 | 9.2 |
| β-Carotene | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 6.5 |
| V | 19.5 | 6.9 | 8.7 | 12.4 | 8.0 | 13.0 |
| A | 16.6 | 24.8 | 20.8 | 0 | 18.3 | 18.7 |
| Z | 1.3 | 23.3 | 16.3 | 0 | 16.3 | 13.4 |
| VAZ | 18.4 | 19.0 | 14.6 | 12.4 | 14.4 | 14.5 |
| (Z+A)/(VAZ) | 0.02 | 0.90 | 0.81 | 0.00 | 0.82 | 0.59 |