Melatonin content of pepper and tomato fruits: Effects of cultivar and solar radiation
We evaluated the effect of cultivar and solar radiation on the melatonin content of Capsicum annuum (pepper) and Solanum lycopersicum (tomato) fruits. The melatonin content of red pepper fruits ranged from 31 to 93 ng g−1 (dry weight). The melatonin content of tomato ranged from 7.5 to 250 ng g−1 (d...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Data de publicação: | 2014 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositório: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/345089 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/345089 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine Capsicum annuum Solanum lycopersicum UHPLC-MS/MS |
| Resumo: | We evaluated the effect of cultivar and solar radiation on the melatonin content of Capsicum annuum (pepper) and Solanum lycopersicum (tomato) fruits. The melatonin content of red pepper fruits ranged from 31 to 93 ng g−1 (dry weight). The melatonin content of tomato ranged from 7.5 to 250 ng g−1 (dry weight). We also studied the effect of ripeness on melatonin content and identified one group of pepper cultivars in which the melatonin content increased as the fruit ripened and another in which it decreased as the fruit ripened. Under shade conditions, the melatonin content in most of tomato cultivars tended to increase (up to 135%), whereas that of most pepper cultivars decreased (to 64%). Overall, the results also demonstrated that the melatonin content of the fruits was not related to carbon fluxes from leaves |
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