Research Article
Biopriming of Momordica charantia Seeds with Enterobacter to Improve Nutritional and Biochemical Attributes
Table 2
Biochemical parameters of the leaves of M. charantia seeds bioprimed with the bacterial strain FD17.
| Biochemical analysis | Control | Bioprimed with FD17 |
| Phenolic content (mg/g) | 10.211a ± 0.01 | 5.56b ± 0.03 | Total soluble sugar (%) | 28.431a ± 3.11 | 33.13a ± 2.24 | Protein (mg/g) | 27.40a ± 1.162 | 5.68b ± 0.07 | Free amino acid (mg/g) | 4.071a ± 0.06 | 2.0b ± 0.1 | Total chlorophyll content (mg/g) | 7.16a ± 1.03 | 9.0a ± 1.5 | Chlorophyll-a (mg/g) | 2.850b ± 0.0 | 6.33a ± 0.58 | Chlorophyll-b (mg/g) | 3.780a ± 0.66 | 8.58a ± 2.50 | Flavonoid (mg/g) | 6.86b ± 0.01 | 1.03a ± 0.05 | Catalase (U/g) | 542.4a ± 17.86 | 459.8a ± 70.78 | Peroxidase (U/g) | 5.681a ± 0.01 | 2.68b ± 0.64 | Anthocyanins (mg/g) | 0.66a ± 0.002 | 0.67a ± 0.01 | Carotenoids (µg/g) | 5.031a ± 0.06 | 3.17b ± 0.29 |
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The results are shown as means of 3 replicates. Values are given as mean (±SD). “a” and “b” show the treatments with a significant difference ( ). |