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β-Carotene, Cucumisin Content and Fruit Morphology of Melon (Cucumis melo L.) Germplasm Collections
Yeong-Jee Kim1
,
Ae-Jin Hwang2
,
Jae-Jong Noh3
,
Xiaohan Wang4
,
Jae-Eun Lee2
,
Eunae Yoo2
,
Sookyeong Lee2
,
Sojeong Hwang1
,
Myung-Kon Kim5
,
Hyungjun Noh6*
1Master’s Degree Reseacher, National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA, Jeonju 54874, Korea
2Researcher, National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA, Jeonju 54874, Korea
3Senior Researcher, Jeonbuk Agricultural Research and Extension Services, Iksan 54591, Korea
4Post-doc, National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA, Jeonju 54874, Korea
5Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Korea
6Senior Researcher, National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA, Jeonju 54874, Korea
*Corresponding Author
1 December 2021. pp. 555-565
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Abstract

Melon fruits are a year-old plant in the family Cucurbitae and are the most cultivated fruit in tropical countries. Melon flesh is an important source of anti-cancer, antioxidant effects, attracting attention as a functional food. We investigated the morphological properties, β-carotene content, and cucumisin activity of seeds of 58 melon genetic resources. Melon resources have shown various morphological properties. Melons grouped by morphological properties were the five groups. β-carotene content varied between 82.34 ㎎/㎏, 86.75 ㎎/㎏, 25.56 ㎎/㎏, 86.25 ㎎/㎏, and 54.65 ㎎/㎏. Between β-carotene, cucumisin activity and other quantitative fruit morphological properties, the color of the pulp and the firmness of the pulp had a significant amount of correlation between the β-carotene content. However, cucumisin activity and β-carotene content had significant negative correlation, and the color of the fruit and shape of the fruit had significant negative correlation with β-carotene content and activity of cucumisin. Our study vindicated that high diversity in melon morphological characters of genetic sources that provide beneficial baseline data for the future and in the activity of β-carotene and cucumisin, and these results could predict indicators of β-carotene content by the length of leaf, the width of fruit, the length of joint, and the length of seed, and collectively the morphological properties of melons could help predict indicators of β-carotene content and help develop functional sarcoma and farmhouse cultivation.

Keywords
Correlation
Cucumisin
Cucurbitae
Genetic resource
Morphological property
β-carotene
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  • Publisher :The Plant Resources Society of Korea
  • Publisher(Ko) :한국자원식물학회
  • Journal Title :Korean Journal of Plant Resources
  • Journal Title(Ko) :한국자원식물학회지
  • Volume : 34
  • No :6
  • Pages :555-565
  • Received Date : 2021-09-27
  • Revised Date : 2021-11-12
  • Accepted Date : 2021-11-15
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.7732/kjpr.2021.34.6.555
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