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. 2020 Oct 6;8:e10016. doi: 10.7717/peerj.10016

Table 3. Effect of light quality on physiological indexes of tissue culture seedlings.

Light source WL 4R:1B BL 1R:4B RL
Chlorophyll a (mg/g FW) 1.32 ± 0.06Aa 0.95 ± 0.13Bb 0.79 ± 0.11Bbc 0.61 ± 0.14Bc 0.81 ± 0.19Bbc
Chlorophyll b (mg/g FW) 0.48 ± 0.05A 0.34 ± 0.01B 0.22 ± 0.13D 0.27 ± 0.01C 0.32 ± 0.03B
Carotenoids (mg/g FW) 0.23 ± 0.11Aa 0.21 ± 0.12ABa 0.16 ± 0.14Bb 0.13 ± 0.08Bb 0.15 ± 0.01Bb
Total chlorophyll (mg/g FW) 1.78 ± 0.55Aa 1.29 ± 0.10Ab 1.05 ± 0.87Bb 0.85 ± 0.10Bc 1.121 ± 0.16Bb
Chlorophyll a/b 2.85 ± 0.78ab 2.81 ± 0.61b 3.04 ± 0.47a 2.56 ± 0.87c 2.59 ± 0.50c
Soluble protein (gprot/L FW) 4.96 ± 0.44B 6.64 ± 0.40A 5.89 ± 0.82B 5.60 ± 0.37B 5.96 ± 0.49B
RuBisCO (U/g FW) 74.00 ± 2.18A 44.97 ± 2.52C 80.45 ± 1.19A 26.17 ± 2.68D 60.24 ± 3.56B

Notes.

Values are means ± SE. Different uppercase letters indicate highly significant difference (P < 0.01) and lowercase letters indicate significant difference (P < 0.05) based on one-way ANOVA and the LSD test.