Litchi fruit pericarp tissue is considered an important source of dietary phenolics. This study consisted of two experiments. The first was conducted to examine the effects of various extraction temperatures (30, 40, 50, 60, 70 and 80 degrees C) and pH values (2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) on the extraction yield of phenolics from litchi fruit pericarp. Extraction was most efficient at pH 4.0, while an ext...

The covered/naked caryopsis trait of barley is an important agronomic trait because it is directly linked to dietary use. The formation of covered/naked caryopsis is controlled by an NUD transcription factor, which is involved in pericarp cuticle development. However, the molecular mechanism underlying this trait remains so far largely unknown. In this study, comparative transcriptomes of grain...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is the primary model for the study of fleshy fruits, and research in this species has elucidated many aspects of fruit physiology, development, and metabolism. However, most of these studies have involved homogenization of the fruit pericarp, with its many constituent cell types. Here, we describe the coupling of pyrosequencing technology with laser capture microdi...

Two new red pericarp transgressive variants (advanced breeding lines from BC2F7 generation) with high yield, derived from a cross between the wild relative, O. rufipogon Griff. and O. sativa subsp. indica cv. MR219, were analysed to determine their proximate composition, total antioxidant activity, phenolic acid composition and tocochromanol content in comparison with two commonly consumed rice...

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the present study describes approaches for the identification of individual beech trees using maternal tissues from their seeds or fruits. four microsatellite markers were used for genetic analysis of seedlots from fagus orientalis lipsky, a highly out-crossing tree species. seeds from 11 single-tree harvests belonging to one population, (7 seeds from each), as well as non-paranchymatic materna...

Several metastable Ac alleles at the maize p locus were identified that produced novel pericarp variegation patterns. From the transmission analysis of pericarp sectors, we show that Ac inactivation is a somatic process. Ac excision from P and transactivation of an unlinked Ds was delayed or absent in plants with metastable Ac alleles. These decreases in Ac activity were correlated to increases...

Application of an aqueous solution of aminoethoxyvinylglycine (AVG) ([S]-trans-2-amino-4-(2-aminoethoxy)-3-butenoic acid hydrochloride) to the locular surface of excised 1 cm diameter × 4 mm thick pericarp discs of pre-climacteric, maturegreen tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill., cv. Castlemart) fruit significantly reduced both ethylene and protein biosynthesis in a log-linear fashion. Exposu...