{"title":"Breeding for pulp colour in Guava: current status and opportunities","authors":"Hanamant Ankad, Akshay Dhillon, Madhubala Thakre, Rutuparna Senapati, Ram Kumar, G. Nayan Deepak, Nagaraja Arumugam, M.K. Verma, Gopala Krishnan S., Amitha Mithra","doi":"10.1080/14620316.2023.2251995","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTGuava (Psidium guajava L.), a member of the family Myrtaceae, is the third richest source of vitamin C after Barbados cherry and aonla. Guava has many medicinal properties associated with every plant part. Coloured guava has additional nutritive value due to its lycopene, anthocyanin, and carotenoid content, which impart colour to its pulp and serve as potential antioxidants. In this review, the various categories of pulp colour in guava, genetics of pulp colour, pigments responsible for various pulp colours, and the biosynthetic pathway of those pigments are presented in detail. The recent advances in guava show that both carotenoids and anthocyanins contribute significantly to its pulp colour. The final pulp colour of the guava depends on the relative proportion of the pigments, i.e. anthocyanins, lycopene, and other carotenoids.KEYWORDS: AnthocyaninsgeneticsGuavalycopenepsidium guajava Lpulp colour AcknowledgementsThis work is supported by ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, 110012, India.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementData presented in all the figures and tables of the review paper are compiled from various sources.","PeriodicalId":54808,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticultural Science & Biotechnology","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Horticultural Science & Biotechnology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14620316.2023.2251995","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HORTICULTURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACTGuava (Psidium guajava L.), a member of the family Myrtaceae, is the third richest source of vitamin C after Barbados cherry and aonla. Guava has many medicinal properties associated with every plant part. Coloured guava has additional nutritive value due to its lycopene, anthocyanin, and carotenoid content, which impart colour to its pulp and serve as potential antioxidants. In this review, the various categories of pulp colour in guava, genetics of pulp colour, pigments responsible for various pulp colours, and the biosynthetic pathway of those pigments are presented in detail. The recent advances in guava show that both carotenoids and anthocyanins contribute significantly to its pulp colour. The final pulp colour of the guava depends on the relative proportion of the pigments, i.e. anthocyanins, lycopene, and other carotenoids.KEYWORDS: AnthocyaninsgeneticsGuavalycopenepsidium guajava Lpulp colour AcknowledgementsThis work is supported by ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, 110012, India.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementData presented in all the figures and tables of the review paper are compiled from various sources.
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The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology is an international, peer-reviewed journal, which publishes original research contributions into the production, improvement and utilisation of horticultural crops. It aims to provide scientific knowledge of interest to those engaged in scientific research and the practice of horticulture. The scope of the journal includes studies on fruit and other perennial crops, vegetables and ornamentals grown in temperate or tropical regions and their use in commercial, amenity or urban horticulture. Papers, including reviews, that give new insights into plant and crop growth, yield, quality and response to the environment, are welcome, including those arising from technological innovation and developments in crop genome sequencing and other biotechnological advances.