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Fruit Morphology, Citrulline, and Arginine Levels in Diverse Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) Germplasm Collections

Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) is a non-seasonal, economically important, cucurbit cultivated throughout the world, with Asia as a continent contributing the most. As part of the effort to diversify watermelon genetic resources in the already cultivated group, this study was devoted to providing bas...

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Autores principales: Assefa, Awraris Derbie, Hur, On-Sook, Ro, Na-Young, Lee, Jae-Eun, Hwang, Ae-Jin, Kim, Bich-Saem, Rhee, Ju-Hee, Yi, Jung-Yoon, Kim, Ji-Hyun, Lee, Ho-Sun, Sung, Jung-Sook, Kim, Myung-Kon, Noh, Jae-Jong
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Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7569901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32824928
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants9091054
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author Assefa, Awraris Derbie
Hur, On-Sook
Ro, Na-Young
Lee, Jae-Eun
Hwang, Ae-Jin
Kim, Bich-Saem
Rhee, Ju-Hee
Yi, Jung-Yoon
Kim, Ji-Hyun
Lee, Ho-Sun
Sung, Jung-Sook
Kim, Myung-Kon
Noh, Jae-Jong
author_facet Assefa, Awraris Derbie
Hur, On-Sook
Ro, Na-Young
Lee, Jae-Eun
Hwang, Ae-Jin
Kim, Bich-Saem
Rhee, Ju-Hee
Yi, Jung-Yoon
Kim, Ji-Hyun
Lee, Ho-Sun
Sung, Jung-Sook
Kim, Myung-Kon
Noh, Jae-Jong
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description Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) is a non-seasonal, economically important, cucurbit cultivated throughout the world, with Asia as a continent contributing the most. As part of the effort to diversify watermelon genetic resources in the already cultivated group, this study was devoted to providing baseline data on morphological quality traits and health-beneficial phytonutrients of watermelon germplasm collections, thereby promoting watermelon research and cultivation programs. To this end, we reported morphological traits, citrulline, and arginine levels of watermelon genetic resources obtained from the gene bank of Agrobiodiversity Center, Republic of Korea, and discussed the relationships between each. Diverse characteristics were observed among many of the traits, but most of the genetic resources (>90%) were either red or pink-fleshed. Korean originated fruits contained intermediate levels of soluble solid content (SSC) while the USA, Russian, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Taiwan, and Uruguay originated fruits had generally the highest levels of soluble solids. The citrulline and arginine contents determined using the High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) method ranged from 6.9 to 52.1 mg/g (average, 27.3 mg/g) and 1.8 to 21.3 mg/g (average, 9.8 mg/g), respectively. The citrulline content determined using the Citrulline Assay Kit ranged from 6.5 to 42.8 mg/g (average, 27.0 mg/g). Resources with high citrulline and arginine levels contained low SSC, whereas red- and pink-colored flesh samples had less citrulline compared to yellow and orange.
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spelling pubmed-75699012020-10-29 Fruit Morphology, Citrulline, and Arginine Levels in Diverse Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) Germplasm Collections Assefa, Awraris Derbie Hur, On-Sook Ro, Na-Young Lee, Jae-Eun Hwang, Ae-Jin Kim, Bich-Saem Rhee, Ju-Hee Yi, Jung-Yoon Kim, Ji-Hyun Lee, Ho-Sun Sung, Jung-Sook Kim, Myung-Kon Noh, Jae-Jong Plants (Basel) Article Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) is a non-seasonal, economically important, cucurbit cultivated throughout the world, with Asia as a continent contributing the most. As part of the effort to diversify watermelon genetic resources in the already cultivated group, this study was devoted to providing baseline data on morphological quality traits and health-beneficial phytonutrients of watermelon germplasm collections, thereby promoting watermelon research and cultivation programs. To this end, we reported morphological traits, citrulline, and arginine levels of watermelon genetic resources obtained from the gene bank of Agrobiodiversity Center, Republic of Korea, and discussed the relationships between each. Diverse characteristics were observed among many of the traits, but most of the genetic resources (>90%) were either red or pink-fleshed. Korean originated fruits contained intermediate levels of soluble solid content (SSC) while the USA, Russian, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Taiwan, and Uruguay originated fruits had generally the highest levels of soluble solids. The citrulline and arginine contents determined using the High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) method ranged from 6.9 to 52.1 mg/g (average, 27.3 mg/g) and 1.8 to 21.3 mg/g (average, 9.8 mg/g), respectively. The citrulline content determined using the Citrulline Assay Kit ranged from 6.5 to 42.8 mg/g (average, 27.0 mg/g). Resources with high citrulline and arginine levels contained low SSC, whereas red- and pink-colored flesh samples had less citrulline compared to yellow and orange. MDPI 2020-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7569901/ /pubmed/32824928 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants9091054 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Assefa, Awraris Derbie
Hur, On-Sook
Ro, Na-Young
Lee, Jae-Eun
Hwang, Ae-Jin
Kim, Bich-Saem
Rhee, Ju-Hee
Yi, Jung-Yoon
Kim, Ji-Hyun
Lee, Ho-Sun
Sung, Jung-Sook
Kim, Myung-Kon
Noh, Jae-Jong
Fruit Morphology, Citrulline, and Arginine Levels in Diverse Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) Germplasm Collections
title Fruit Morphology, Citrulline, and Arginine Levels in Diverse Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) Germplasm Collections
title_full Fruit Morphology, Citrulline, and Arginine Levels in Diverse Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) Germplasm Collections
title_fullStr Fruit Morphology, Citrulline, and Arginine Levels in Diverse Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) Germplasm Collections
title_full_unstemmed Fruit Morphology, Citrulline, and Arginine Levels in Diverse Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) Germplasm Collections
title_short Fruit Morphology, Citrulline, and Arginine Levels in Diverse Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) Germplasm Collections
title_sort fruit morphology, citrulline, and arginine levels in diverse watermelon (citrullus lanatus) germplasm collections
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7569901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32824928
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants9091054
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