The antioxidant capacity and macroelement content of several onion cultivars

IntroductionPlants, and particularly the horticulture section, are used by people for food, either as edible products or for culinary ingredients, and for medicinal use or ornamental and aesthetic purposes. They are genetically a very diverse group and play a major role in modern society end economy. Fruits and vegetables are important components of traditional food, but are also central to healthy diets of modern urban populations (

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Characterization of phenotypic and nutritional properties ofvaluable Amaranthus cruentus L. mutants

Hricová¹,

Fejér²,

Libiakova³

et al. 2016

“…Plants are genetically very diverse and play a major role in modern society and the economy. Fruits and vegetables are an important component of traditional foods, but are also central to healthy diets of modern urban populations (Bajpai et al, 2014;Feng et al, 2014;Ruttanaprasert et al, 2014;Mlcek et al, 2015).…”

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Bioactive and antioxidant characteristics of blackberry cultivars from East Anatolia

Gündoğdu¹,

Kan²,

Canan³

2016

Blackberry is commonly used both in the fresh and the processing market. In the present study antioxidant capacity, organic acids, phenolic compounds, vitamin C, and sugars content of blackberry cultivars grown in the east of Turkey were determined. Phenolic compounds, organic acids, vitamin C, and sugars were determined by HPLC. Antioxidant capacity was determined by spectrophotometric methods. The cultivar Cherokee had the highest antioxidant capacity (48.900 µmol TE g -1 ), and the cultivar Jumbo had the lowest antioxidant capacity (30.855 µmol TE g -1 ). It was determined that the chief phenolic compounds in blackberry cultivars were catechin (ranging from 111.599 to 438.970 mg 100 g -1 ), followed by ellagic acid (ranging from 10.610 to 51.506 mg 100 g -1 ). Looking at the content of organic acids, citric acid and malic acid came to the fore, ranging from 3.182 to 7.131 g kg -1 and 1.349 to 2.881 g kg -1 , respectively. Fructose content of the studied cultivars was higher than the glucose and sucrose contents. Results indicate that blackberry cultivars with higher antioxidant capacity and biochemical content may be valuable for nutritional breeding efforts.

“…The stem, leaf, flowers, roots, and fruits of vegetables and fruit crops have the highest potential of export (Bajpai et al, 2014;Kaczmarska et al, 2015;Mlcek et al, 2015;Wojnicka-Poltorak et al, 2015). Turkey is a horticultural country with high production and consumption of fruits and vegetables.…”

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Strain identification and sequence variability of plum pox virus in Turkey

Gürcan¹,

Ceylan²

2016

IntroductionPlum pox virus (PPV) is considered to be the most devastating disease of Prunus spp. (Cambra et al., 2006), and it is one of the 10 most studied plant viruses in molecular plant pathology (Scholthof et al., 2011). PPV is a member of the genus Potyvirus, which encompasses approximately 30% of the currently known plant viruses (Gibbs et al., 2008). The virus causes reduced fruit quality and premature fruit drop in susceptible stone fruit crops (peach, apricot, plum, and Japanese plum). After the onset of the viral infection, controlling the virus has been very difficult in stone fruit-producing regions (Cambra et al., 2006).PPV has a single molecule of a positive, single-sense, RNA genome, approximately 9.7 kb. RNA viruses exhibit rapid evolution and have high mutation rates with large population sizes, resulting in high genetic diversity within the virus populations (Domingo and Holland, 1997). Like other RNA viruses, PPV shows high variability, with nine strains identified to date: Ancestor Marcus (An), Cherry (C), Cherry Russian (CR), Dideron (D), Marcus (M), El Amar (EA), Recombinant (Rec), Turkey (T), and Winona (W). This large number of strains is greater than for any other Potyvirus (Garcia et al., 2014). Among the nine strains, PPV-M and PPV-D are considered the two most prevalent groups (Candresse et al., 1998). PPV-M prevalence has been reported throughout southern, eastern, and central Europe (Myrta et al., 2001;Capote et al., 2010). PPV-M identification with reliable sequence analysis was not reported outside of Europe (Garcia et al., 2014). PPV-D is the most prevalent strain in Europe and worldwide and it has been reported in more than 40 countries (Garcia and Cambra, 2007;James et al., 2013). PPV-Rec is a recombination product of the M and D strains, carrying mostly a PPV-D-like genome and known to be present in central and south-central Europe (Cervera