Effects of Seed Priming with Zinc Sulfate on Nutritional Enrichment and Biochemical Fingerprints of Momordica charantia

Table 1

Biochemical analysis of zinc sulfate treatment on seed priming of M. charantia at biochemical attributes of vegetative tissues in leaves.

Biochemical analysis	Control M. charantia	Treated M. charantia
Total soluble sugar (%)	28.43 ± 3.11^a	30.54 ± 2.26^a
Protein (mg/g)	27.4 ± 1.162^a	20.16 ± 0.04^b
Phenolic content (mg/g)	10.21 ± 0.01^a	4.76 ± 0.02^b
Free amino acids (mg/g)	4.07 ± 0.06^a	3.6 ± 0.36^a
Chlorophyll-a (mg/g)	2.85 ± 0.01^b	6.34 ± 0.58^a
Chlorophyll-b (mg/g)	3.78 ± 0.66^b	7.33 ± 0.68^a
Flavonoid (mg/g)	6.86 ± 0.01^a	3.07 ± 0.06^b
Total chlorophyll content (mg/g)	7.16 ± 1.03^b	17.67 ± 0.58^a
Catalase (U/g)	542.4 ± 17.86^a	466.87 ± 57.39^a
Peroxidase (U/g)	5.68 ± 0.01^a	6.44 ± 0.33^a
Carotenoids (μg/g)	5.03 ± 0.06^a	3.28 ± 0.49^a
Anthocyanin (mg/g)	0.66 ± 0.002^a	0.54 ± 0.001^a