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. 1999 Jul;120(3):727–738. doi: 10.1104/pp.120.3.727

Table III.

Pigment composition of the fractions collected from Suc-gradient ultracentrifugation of solubilized thylakoids from V. major grown in GCs or OD under natural sunlight

Pigment and Treatment Minor CPs + LHCII Monomer (Fraction 2)
LHCII Trimer (Fraction 3)
PSII Core (Fraction 4)
PSI-LHCI (Fraction 5)
GC OD GC OD GC OD GC OD
mol/100 mol Chl a
Chl b 68.0 ± 1.4  67.8 ± 0.3  78.8 ± 2.0  74.8 ± 2.7  5.5 ± 1.3 2.8 ± 0.8 11.5 ± 0.5  11.5 ± 0.2 
Neoxanthin 10.6 ± 0.7  10.0 ± 0.7  12.7 ± 0.6  11.3 ± 0.9  0.6 ± 0.5 0.7 ± 0.3 0 0.3 ± 0.1
Lutein 28.8 ± 0.4  27.6 ± 1.3  34.8 ± 0.5  31.4 ± 1.7  4.7 ± 0.5 3.1 ± 0.4 6.5 ± 0.3 5.7 ± 0.6
β-Carotene 0 0.4 ± 0.3 0 0 17.0 ± 0.1  12.0 ± 2.9  9.9 ± 0.7 13.6 ± 0.5 
V
 Control 4.8 9.1 3.4 10.4 1.7 1.4 3.2 3.6
 Stress 2.1 3.2 0.6 2.0 1.3 0.3 2.0 1.9
 Recovery 2.5 5.0 1.0 3.3 1.0 0.7 2.3 2.4
A
 Control 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
 Stress 1.1 2.1 0.9 1.9 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.8
 Recovery 1.4 3.0 1.0 1.9 0.9 0.8 0.6 0.8
Z
 Control 0.7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
 Stress 5.2 5.9 2.8 4.8 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.3
 Recovery 4.8 4.3 2.7 2.5 1.0 0.9 1.3 1.7
VAZ
 Control 5.7 9.1 3.4 10.4 1.7 1.4 3.2 3.6
 Stress 8.5 11.2 4.3 8.8 3.2 2.2 3.8 4.0
 Recovery 8.7 12.3 4.7 7.6 2.8 2.4 4.2 4.8
(Z+A)/(VAZ)
 Control 0.15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
 Stress 0.75 0.68 0.86 0.74 0.61 0.82 0.48 0.47
 Recovery 0.72 0.55 0.78 0.53 0.66 0.69 0.44 0.46

The pigments Chl b, neoxanthin, lutein, and β-carotene are means ± sd of the control, stress (48 h of continuous light at 15°C for leaves from GC plants and 122 h of continuous light at 10°C for leaves from plants grown OD), and recovery (2.5 h in low light at 22°C) treatments.