Table I. Chl and Car content and pigment ratios for wild type, tla2 mutant, and tla2-complemented strains of C. reinhardtii (n = 3–5; means ± sd)

Strain	Chl/Cell	Chl a/b	Car/Cell	Car/Chl
	fmol		fmol
Low light (80 μmol photons m⁻² s⁻¹)
4A+	2.57 ± 0.43	2.72 ± 0.07	1.07 ± 0.17	0.42 ± 0.00
CC-125	2.66 ± 0.13	3.00 ± 0.03	1.11 ± 0.06	0.42 ± 0.00
CC-504	2.36 ± 0.05	2.73 ± 0.05	0.93 ± 0.04	0.39 ± 0.01
CC-425	2.33 ± 0.10	2.86 ± 0.04	0.95 ± 0.04	0.41 ± 0.01
C1	1.93 ± 0.17	2.87 ± 0.02	0.67 ± 0.16	0.42 ± 0.00
C2	1.55 ± 0.04	3.01 ± 0.03	0.67 ± 0.00	0.43 ± 0.01
C3	1.06 ± 0.01	3.35 ± 0.16	0.54 ± 0.01	0.51 ± 0.00
C4	0.61 ± 0.09	3.92 ± 0.09	0.42 ± 0.05	0.68 ± 0.02
tla2	0.46 ± 0.04	9.60 ± 0.98	0.38 ± 0.00	0.82 ± 0.06
Medium light (450 μmol photons m⁻² s⁻¹)
4A+	1.66 ± 0.37	2.45 ± 0.09	0.85 ± 0.17	0.51 ± 0.01
CC-125	1.85 ± 0.49	2.75 ± 0.14	1.01 ± 0.33	0.54 ± 0.04
CC-504	1.68 ± 0.33	3.08 ± 0.12	0.84 ± 0.13	0.50 ± 0.03
CC-425	1.35 ± 0.19	2.85 ± 0.04	0.74 ± 0.10	0.55 ± 0.01
C1	1.03 ± 0.04	2.71 ± 0.09	0.56 ± 0.03	0.54 ± 0.02
C2	0.71 ± 0.07	3.62 ± 0.11	0.52 ± 0.03	0.74 ± 0.03
C3	0.51 ± 0.07	4.36 ± 1.05	0.43 ± 0.07	0.85 ± 0.07
C4	0.35 ± 0.05	6.49 ± 0.56	0.34 ± 0.04	0.97 ± 0.02
tla2	0.33 ± 0.04	7.92 ± 0.83	0.30 ± 0.03	0.90 ± 0.01