Morphological, Biochemical, and Molecular Diversity Assessment of Egyptian Bottle Gourd Cultivars

Table 3

Total chlorophyll (a, b), β-carotene, total photosynthetic pigments, total phenols contents, and total amino acids of leaves for ten bottle gourd cultivars.

Cultivars	Chlorophyll a mg/100 gm fresh weight	Chlorophyll b mg/100 gm fresh weight	Carotenoid mg/100 gm fresh weight	Total pigments mg/100 gm fresh weight	Total phenols mg GAE/100 g	Total amino acids mg/g
S1	0.39	0.24	0.38	1.01	0.39	0.40
S2	0.30	0.26	0.46	1.02	0.17	0.42
S3	0.16	0.07	0.14	0.37	0.24	0.49
S4	0.12	0.05	0.09	0.26	0.16	0.01
S5	0.10	0.03	0.06	0.19	0.11	0.05
S6	0.19	0.11	0.15	0.45	0.14	0.08
S7	0.20	0.12	0.18	0.50	0.21	0.16
S8	0.11	0.19	0.13	0.43	0.36	0.10
S9	0.06	0.07	0.13	0.26	0.19	0.05
S10	0.13	0.24	0.29	0.66	0.19	0.39
LSD 0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.01	0.02