Relative humidity regimes modify epicuticular wax metabolism and fruit properties during Navelate orange conservation in an ABA-dependent manner

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Relative humidity (RH) during conservation and the chemical composition of epicuticular wax layer are factors that determine fruit quality and weight loss. This study investigates the influence of RH on the epicuticular wax metabolism during citrus fruit storage, and how it is affected by abscisic acid (ABA). Low RH conditions increased alcohols and fatty acids abundance, mainly due to accumulation of docosanol and lignoceric and cerotic acids. Low RH also decreased terpenoids and nonacosane and hentriacontane contents, the most abundant alkanes. Consequently, the alkane/terpenoid ratio was decreased concomitantly with fruit weight loss and cuticle permeability increments. ABA treatment differently mediated wax compositional changes at high or low RH. At low RH, ABA attenuated the increase in fatty acids and enhanced the decrease in alcohols and the accumulation of terpenoids, mainly affecting lignoceric and cerotic acids, docosanol, α-amyrin, sitosterol, friedelin and friedelanone contents. These trends were inversed under high RH conditions.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:369

Enthalten in:

Food chemistry - 369(2022) vom: 01. Feb., Seite 130946

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Romero, Paco [VerfasserIn]
Lafuente, María Teresa [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

30ZAG40J8N
72S9A8J5GW
Abscisic Acid
Alpha-amyrin
Citrus fruit
Cuticle permeability
Dehydration
Fruit quality
Hormone treatment
Journal Article
Pentacyclic Triterpenes
Wax chemical composition
Waxes

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Date Completed 21.10.2021

Date Revised 21.10.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.foodchem.2021.130946

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM330123831