{"title":"RESEARCHES ON THE BIOCHEMICAL CONTENT OF FRUITS IN SOME BLUEBERRY HYBRID PROGENY","authors":"Oana Hera, M. Sturzeanu, M. Paraschiv, L. Vîjan","doi":"10.33045/fgr.v39.2023.06","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Breeding highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) is a goal for many researchers, as many blueberry cultivars are cultivated worldwide mainly due to their biochemical composition that can reduce the risk of many diseases. The study was carried out over a period of three years to evaluate fruit size, average weight per fruit, firmness, but also the total content of bioactive compounds, such as polyphenols, flavonoids, anthocyanins, tannins and carotenoids, along with vitamin content. C, total sugar, extracted from frozen blueberries. Three blueberry cultivars ('Delicia', 'Northblue' and 'Duke'), an advanced selection ('4/6') and their hybrid progeny ('Delicia x Duke', 'Delicia x Northblue', ' Delicia x 4/6') were evaluated. The plants were grown at the Research Institute for Fruit Growing, Pitesti, Romania in open field studies in a randomized block with three replications (5 plants/genotype/replication). The research carried out showed the following: average weight/plant recorded values between 1.42 g (hybrid 16-12-10) and 2.47 g ('4/6'), fruit firmness showed variations from 13.9 N .('Northblue') to 29.37 N ('Delicia'), soluble dry matter 11.4°Brix (16-12-15) and 17.01°Brix (16-20-22), polyphenols oscillated from 114.98 (16-12-19) to 1,652 mg GAE/100g (16-20-12), vitamin C had a lower level of 2.3% and the upper level of 16.86% (16 - 9-10). These results indicate the importance of the blueberry species for its breeding and its role in health and nutrition.","PeriodicalId":37667,"journal":{"name":"Fruit Growing Research","volume":"43 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Fruit Growing Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.33045/fgr.v39.2023.06","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Agricultural and Biological Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Breeding highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) is a goal for many researchers, as many blueberry cultivars are cultivated worldwide mainly due to their biochemical composition that can reduce the risk of many diseases. The study was carried out over a period of three years to evaluate fruit size, average weight per fruit, firmness, but also the total content of bioactive compounds, such as polyphenols, flavonoids, anthocyanins, tannins and carotenoids, along with vitamin content. C, total sugar, extracted from frozen blueberries. Three blueberry cultivars ('Delicia', 'Northblue' and 'Duke'), an advanced selection ('4/6') and their hybrid progeny ('Delicia x Duke', 'Delicia x Northblue', ' Delicia x 4/6') were evaluated. The plants were grown at the Research Institute for Fruit Growing, Pitesti, Romania in open field studies in a randomized block with three replications (5 plants/genotype/replication). The research carried out showed the following: average weight/plant recorded values between 1.42 g (hybrid 16-12-10) and 2.47 g ('4/6'), fruit firmness showed variations from 13.9 N .('Northblue') to 29.37 N ('Delicia'), soluble dry matter 11.4°Brix (16-12-15) and 17.01°Brix (16-20-22), polyphenols oscillated from 114.98 (16-12-19) to 1,652 mg GAE/100g (16-20-12), vitamin C had a lower level of 2.3% and the upper level of 16.86% (16 - 9-10). These results indicate the importance of the blueberry species for its breeding and its role in health and nutrition.
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FRUIT GROWING RESEARCH is an international journal, which has been issued under the care of the Research Institute for Fruit Growing Pitesti, Romania. Fruit growing research is an annual journal aimed at disseminating significant research and original papers on genetic resources, breeding of deciduous fruit trees species; fruit sustainable technologies – environment protection; propagation, virology and tissue culture, postharvest, that can be of interest to a wide audience of plant scientists in all areas of fruit growing. An international Editorial Board advises the journal.