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)	10.211^a ± 0.01	5.56^b ± 0.03
Total soluble sugar (%)	28.431^a ± 3.11	33.13^a ± 2.24
Protein (mg/g)	27.40^a ± 1.162	5.68^b ± 0.07
Free amino acid (mg/g)	4.071^a ± 0.06	2.0^b ± 0.1
Total chlorophyll content (mg/g)	7.16^a ± 1.03	9.0^a ± 1.5
Chlorophyll-a (mg/g)	2.850^b ± 0.0	6.33^a ± 0.58
Chlorophyll-b (mg/g)	3.780^a ± 0.66	8.58^a ± 2.50
Flavonoid (mg/g)	6.86^b ± 0.01	1.03^a ± 0.05
Catalase (U/g)	542.4^a ± 17.86	459.8^a ± 70.78
Peroxidase (U/g)	5.681^a ± 0.01	2.68^b ± 0.64
Anthocyanins (mg/g)	0.66^a ± 0.002	0.67^a ± 0.01
Carotenoids (µg/g)	5.031^a ± 0.06	3.17^b ± 0.29

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 ().