Table 1.

Carotenoid composition in ripe fruit of various tomato lines (μg g⁻¹ FW).

	Lutein	Lycopene	Prolycopene	Neurosporene	ζ-Carotene	β-Carotene	Phytoene + Phytofluene	Total
r 2997	0.5 ± 0.1	0.1 ± 0.1		0.2		0.5 ± 0.1		1.3 ± 0.1
t 3406	0.5		20.2 ± 5.5	8.3 ± 1.3	17.6 ± 7.7		38.5 ± 10.2	85.6 ± 15.3
Z 2803	1.9 ± 0.2	5.8 ± 1.9			37.9 ± 6.2		59 ± 10.1	104.7
r2997/t3406		0.5	8.9 ± 2.6	1.7 ± 0.7	1.8 ± 1		3.1 ± 0.9	16 ± 5.4
IL3-2 (rsp)	1.5 ± 0.2	0.4 ± 0.3				0.9		2.8 ± 0.1
IL3-2(rsp)/t3406	0.7 ± 0.1	1.1 ± 0.3	5.2 ± 2.6	2.3 ± 0.1	6.5 ± 2.5	1.0 ± 0.1	10.4 ± 4.4	27.2 ± 10.2
IL3-2(rsp)/z2803	1.2 ± 0.3	0.4 ± 0.4		0.2 ± 0.1		0.4 ± 0.2		2.2 ± 0.5
r 3756	0.6 ± 0.1			0.3 ± 0.1		0.2 ± 0.1		1.7 ± 0.4
r 3756 / t 3002	0.3	0.4 ± 0.4	4.1 ± 0.9	1.5 ± 0.5	1.5 ± 0.5	0.1 ± 0.1	1.4 ± 0.5	9.4 ± 2.6
M82	0.4 ± 0.2	45.8 ± 7.3				1 ± 0.2	8.8 ± 2.8	56.9 ± 10.1

r²⁹⁹⁷ and r³⁷⁵⁶ are yellow flesh alleles; t³⁴⁰⁶ and t³⁰⁰² are tangerine alleles; z²⁸⁰³ is a null allele of zeta. M82 represents the wild type.