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β-Carotene, Cucumisin Content and Fruit Morphology of Melon (Cucumis melo L.) Germplasm Collections

  • Kim, Yeong-Jee (National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA) ;
  • Hwang, Ae-Jin (National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA) ;
  • Noh, Jae-Jong (Jeonbuk Agricultural Research and Extension Services) ;
  • Wang, Xiaohan (National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA) ;
  • Lee, Jae-Eun (National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA) ;
  • Yoo, Eunae (National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA) ;
  • Lee, Sookyeong (National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA) ;
  • Hwang, Sojeong (National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA) ;
  • Kim, Myung-Kon (Department of Food Science and Technology, Jeonbuk National University) ;
  • Noh, Hyungjun (National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA)
  • Received : 2021.09.27
  • Accepted : 2021.11.15
  • Published : 2021.12.01
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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 mg/kg, 86.75 mg/kg, 25.56 mg/kg, 86.25 mg/kg, and 54.65 mg/kg. 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.

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Acknowledgement

This study was carried out with the support of the "Research Program for Agricultural Science and Technology Development (Project No. PJ014213012020), National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea.

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