Screening the Citrus Greek National Germplasm Collection for fruit quality and metabolic footprint.

Autor: Michailidis M; Laboratory of Pomology, Department of Horticulture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece., Ziogas V; Intsitute of Olive Tree, Subtropical Plants and Viticulture, ELGO-DIMITRA, Chania 73134, Greece., Sarrou E; Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources, ELGO-DIMITRA, Thessaloniki 57001, Greece., Nasiopoulou E; Laboratory of Pomology, Department of Horticulture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece., Styliani Titeli V; Laboratory of Pomology, Department of Horticulture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece., Skodra C; Laboratory of Pomology, Department of Horticulture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece., Tanou G; Institute of Soil and Water Resources, ELGO-DIMITRA, Thessaloniki 57001, Greece; Joint Laboratory of Horticulture, ELGO-Dimitra, Thessaloniki-Thermi 57001, Greece., Ganopoulos I; Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources, ELGO-DIMITRA, Thessaloniki 57001, Greece; Joint Laboratory of Horticulture, ELGO-Dimitra, Thessaloniki-Thermi 57001, Greece., Martens S; Centro Ricerca e Innovazione, Fondazione Edmund Mach, 38098, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy., Molassiotis A; Laboratory of Pomology, Department of Horticulture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece. Electronic address: amolasio@agro.auth.gr.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Food chemistry [Food Chem] 2024 Mar 01; Vol. 435, pp. 137573. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 23.
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2023.137573
Abstrakt: Citrus fruits are one of the most important fruits in the global food industry due to their unique taste and nutritional benefits. Herein, we characterize the physicochemical and bioactive attributes of twenty-nine Greek citrus accessions, including oranges, mandarins/clementines, lemons, bergamot, citrons and lime along with twenty-seven highly commercial international cultivars. The assessed genotypes differ in various quality traits including color, ripening, and textural attributes. Several indigenous cultivars displayed desirable organoleptic traits, such as the oranges 'Valencia Oval Porou' (e.g., juice content and ascorbic acid) and 'Sanguine Gouritis' (eg., soluble solids (SSC) and acidity (TA) ratio), the mandarin 'Clementine Porou' (e.g., SSC/TA) and the lemon 'Vakalou' (e.g., firmness, acidity). Differences in primary metabolites, mainly in sugars, organic acids and amino acids were recorded among the tested species and cultivars. In addition, the autochthonous orange cultivars 'Sanguine Gouritsis' and 'Valencia Oval Porou' contained high sucrose levels whereas 'Lainato Chanion' had high hesperidin content. This large-scale analysis supports the ample availability of genetic resources for the development of citrus cultivars with improved nutritional quality traits.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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