Table 1. Total amino acid content in three laver cultivars harvested at different times

Compounds	Contents (mg/100 g dry wt.)
Compounds	PD11¹⁾	PS12	PY12	PY01	PY03
Isoleucine	1,270.83±182.04^b	1,469.50±119.69^b	1,821.87±52.66^a	1,862.45±191.40^a	1,404.46±50.35^b
Leucine	2,662.35±340.85^b	3,039.99±189.57^ab	3,428.10±59.36^a	3,478.73±377.88^a	2,751.09±48.24^b
Lysine	1,863.59±256.37^c	2,056.51±160.52^abc	2,289.17±148.26^ab	2,324.78±337.43^a	1,902.28±19.22^bc
Methionine	693.28±78.15^b	572.06±53.59^b	1,072.20±105.34^a	968.35±24.93^a	708.94±151.11^b
Phenylalanine	1,398.19±175.00^c	1,619.99±114.96^bc	1,938.14±48.53^a	1,818.41±183.78^ab	1,473.65±10.59^c
Threonine	1,909.88±311.16^a⁴⁾⁵⁾	2,141.56±59.78^ab	2,351.08±40.42^a	2,332.09±357.09^ab	1,919.80±90.20^b
Valine	2,235.56±276.18^a	2,507.00±168.97^ab	2,896.39±88.33^a	2,862.54±338.62^a	2,239.84±53.92^b
Total EAA²⁾	12,033.67±1,540.51^b	13,406.62±817.57^b	15,796.93±215.15^a	15,647.36±1,777.20^a	12,400.05±259.81^b
Alanine	4,338.85±720.15^a	3,377.89±247.50^b	3,679.59±175.36^ab	3,737.37±399.96^ab	3,302.79±50.40^b
Arginine	2,728.01±579.28^a	2,966.93±184.65^a	3,255.8±290.84^a	3,280.88±651.37^a	2,579.90±204.81^a
Aspartic acid	3,388.30±571.55^a	3,823.29±151.65^a	4,245.11±163.42^a	4,346.54±868.94^a	3,490.59±278.55^a
Cystine	35.17±60.91^b	11.55±20.00^b	244.6±63.31^a	190.54±69.02^a	63.10±63.84^b
Glutamic acid	3,738.66±754.73^a	3,797.10±103.29^a	4,177.62±119.71^a	4,377.63±750.33^a	3,643.63±159.75^a
Glycine	2,098.91±374.58^b	2,160.16±100.60^ab	2,630.82±50.61^a	2,570.99±396.24^ab	2,095.64±79.39^b
Histidine	529.17±30.71^a	634.78±167.63^a	660.65±108.85^a	552.68±68.07^a	480.33±75.37^a
Proline	1,731.41±390.01^a	2,062.57±123.95^a	2,251.63±339.18^a	2,306.52±688.38^a	1,783.59±336.24^a
Serine	1,944.08±345.15^a	2,086.53±55.21^a	2,305.40±43.72^a	2,355.39±411.74^a	1,881.46±83.09^a
Tyrosine	1,196.53±173.06^b	1,392.86±124.98^b	1,666.11±67.02^a	1,643.62±163.71^a	1,185.44±49.38^b
Total AA³⁾	33,762.75±5,374.50^b	35,720.29±1,495.48^ab	40,914.26±405.28^a	41,009.52±6,071.13^a	32,906.54±859.96^b

PD11, P. dentata harvested in November; PS12, P. seriata harvested in December; PY12, P. yezoensis harvested in December; PY01, P. yezoensis harvested in January; PY03, P. yezoensis harvested in March.
Total essential amino acid.
Total amino acid.
All values are mean±SD in triplicates.
Different letters (^a-d) in the same column mean significantly different (p<0.05).