Volume 214, 1 January 2017, Pages 694–701
Highlights
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- Screening phenolic and anthocyanin content of plum cultivars for breeding purposes.
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- Significant impact of cultivar on content of phenolic and anthocyanin compounds.
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- Significant impact of year and environmental conditions on total phenolic content.
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- The highest amount of phenolics, anthocyanins and sugars in “Hohenheim breeds 4894”.
Abstract
In
this study assessment of total phenolic, individual anthocyanin and
total sugar content (TSC) of wide range of plum cultivars was done in
order to select cultivars with high health benefiting compounds for
potential breeding purposes. Total phenolics varied between 38.45 and
841.50 mg GAE 100 g−1 FW. Cyaniding-3-rutinoside,
cyaniding-3- glucoside and its equivalents were identified in
anthocyanin measurement by HPLC with different ranges. TSC differed
between 9.63 and 29.47%. Besides, evaluation of the effect of cultivar
and year on phenolic content of 23 randomly selected cultivars over two
following years (2013 & 2014) showed significant effect of both
factors on phenolic content of plum cultivars. Overall, cultivars
“Cacaks Spaete” which had high amount of total phenolics with stability
over time, as well as “Hohenheim breed 4894” as a cultivar which
contained high amounts of total phenolics, anthocyanins and TSC were
selected for further breeding purposes to provide high nutritional
quality plum to consumers.
Keywords
- Plum;
- Phenolic content;
- Anthocyanin;
- HPLC;
- Total sugar content
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