Table 3.
Chlorophyll-a, Chlorophyll-b and carotenoids in microgreens treated with different application concentrations of ascorbic acid in 3 experiments.
| Treatment (% ascorbic acid) | Experiment-1 | Experiment-2 | Experiment-3 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chl-a | Chl-b | Carotenoids | Chl-a | Chl-b | Carotenoids | Chl-a | Chl-b | Carotenoids | |
| 0 (Control) | 13.23 | 6.72 | 3.09 | 20.28a | 10.38ab | 4.48 | 25.56a | 20.37a | 3.74 |
| 0.05 | 13.35 | 6.41 | 3.33 | 18.25ab | 10.15ab | 3.93 | 23.18a | 19.81bc | 5.14 |
| 0.1 | 12.91 | 5.38 | 3.54 | 24.57a | 15.78a | 4.66 | 25.95a | 16.29a | 4.19 |
| 0.25 | 15.04 | 6.33 | 3.92 | 11.37bc | 4.38b | 3.52 | 24.95a | 12.98ab | 4.92 |
| 0.5 | – | – | – | 9.117c | 3.67b | 2.85 | 13.30b | 5.85c | 3.79 |
| P-value | 0.889 | 0.864 | 0.501 | < 0.0001 | 0.0017 | 0.0571 | < 0.0001 | 0.0258 | 0.2967 |
Significant values are in italics.
Significant differences (p ≤ 0.05) between treatments are indicated by different lowercase letters within the column.