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Table 5 Km values for β-carotene extrapolated from the hyperbolic kinetics and the corresponding linearisations shown in Figure 7

From: Insight into durum wheat Lpx-B1: a small gene family coding for the lipoxygenase responsible for carotenoid bleaching in mature grains

Plot

Km (μM)

 

Haplotype I

Haplotype II

Haplotype III

 

Trinakria

Kiperounda

Primadur

Tresor

Cosmodur

Ofanto

Michaelis-Menten

3.99 ± 0.16

4.24 ± 0.55

4.11 ± 0.12

4.18 ± 0.45

1.19 ± 0.11

1.19 ± 0.12

Lineweaver-Burk

4.18 ± 0.25

4.11 ± 0.47

3.99 ± 0.21

4.07 ± 0.19

1.21 ± 0.05

1.24 ± 0.08

Hanes

4.00 ± 0.17

4.26 ± 0.43

4.10 ± 0.15

3.95 ± 0.31

1.26 ± 0.13

1.22 ± 0.10

Eadie-Hofstee

4.01 ± 0.21

4.30 ± 0.40

3.95 ± 0.13

3.96 ± 0.28

1.15 ± 0.07

1.16 ± 0.07

Mean valuea

4.04 ± 0.19A

4.22 ± 0.40A

4.03 ± 0.15A

4.04 ± 0.29A

1.20 ± 0.09B

1.20 ± 0.08B

  1. aValues are expressed as means of the three field replications ± S.D.; the different uppercase letters correspond to significantly different values (P < 0.05).