| Title: | The Ancient Neapolitan Sweet Lime and the Calabrian Lemoncetta Locrese Belong to the Same Citrus Species |
| Author(s): | Cautela D; Balestrieri ML; Savini S; Sannino A; Ferrari G; Servillo L; De Masi L; Pastore A; Castaldo D; |
| Address: | "Stazione Sperimentale per le Industrie delle Essenze e dei Derivati dagli Agrumi (SSEA), Azienda Speciale CCIAA di Reggio Calabria, via G. Tommasini 2, 89125 Reggio Calabria, Italy. Dipartimento di Medicina di Precisione, Universita degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', Via L. De Crecchio 7, 80138 Napoli, Italy. Stazione Sperimentale per le Industrie delle Conserve Alimentari (SSICA), Fondazione di Ricerca CCIAA di Parma, Viale Tanara 31/A, 43100 Parma, Italy. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e ProdALscarl, Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo 1, 84084 Fisciano, Italy. National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Biosciences and BioResources (IBBR), Via Universita 133, 80055 Portici, Italy. United Kingdom Dementia Research Institute Centre, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 125 Coldharbour Lane, London SE5 9NU, UK. Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico (MiSE), Via Molise 2, 00187 Roma, Italy" |
| DOI: | 10.3390/molecules25010113 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1420-3049 (Electronic) 1420-3049 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "'Neapolitan limmo' is an ancient and rare sweet Mediterranean lime, now almost extinct but used until a few decades ago for the production of a fragrant liqueur called the 'four citrus fruits'. The objective of this work was to compare, through the use of chemical (flavonoids, volatile organic compounds, and chiral compounds) and molecular (DNA fingerprint based on RAPD-PCR) markers, the residual population of Neapolitan limmo with other populations of sweet limes, identified in Calabria and known as 'lemoncetta Locrese'. We report for the first time specific botanical characteristics of the two fruits and unequivocally show that the ancient sweet Mediterranean limes Neapolitan limmo and lemoncetta Locrese are synonyms of the same Citrus species. Owing to the biodiversity conserved in their places of origin, it will now be possible to recover, enhance and implement the use of this ancient sweet lime for agro-industrial purposes" |
| Keywords: | Citrus aurantiifolia/*genetics Fruit/*genetics Italy *Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique Mediterranean sweet lime Neapolitan limmo Neapolitan 'four citrus fruits' liqueur agrobiodiversity lemoncetta Locrese taxonomy; |
| Notes: | "MedlineCautela, Domenico Balestrieri, Maria Luisa Savini, Sara Sannino, Anna Ferrari, Giovanna Servillo, Luigi De Masi, Luigi Pastore, Annalisa Castaldo, Domenico eng Switzerland 2020/01/02 Molecules. 2019 Dec 27; 25(1):113. doi: 10.3390/molecules25010113" |
