| Title: | Diversity among mandarin varieties and natural sub-groups in aroma volatiles compositions |
| Author(s): | Goldenberg L; Yaniv Y; Doron-Faigenboim A; Carmi N; Porat R; |
| Address: | "Department of Postharvest Science of Fresh Produce, ARO, the Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel. Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel. Department of Fruit Tree Crops, ARO, the Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1097-0010 (Electronic) 0022-5142 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "BACKGROUND: Mandarins constitute a large, diverse and important group within the Citrus family. Here, we analysed the aroma volatiles compositions of 13 mandarin varieties belonging to seven genetically different natural sub-groups that included common mandarin (C. reticulata Blanco), clementine (C. clementina Hort. ex. Tan), satsuma (C. unshiu Marcovitch), Mediterranean mandarin (C. deliciosa Tenore), King mandarin (C. nobilis Loureiro), and mandarin hybrids, such as tangor (C. reticulata x C. sinensis) and tangelo (C. reticulata x C. paradisi). RESULTS: We found that mandarin varieties among tangors ('Temple', 'Ortanique'), tangelos ('Orlando', 'Minneola') and King ('King') had more volatiles, at higher levels, and were richer in sesquiterpene and ester volatiles, than other varieties belonging to the sub-groups common mandarin ('Ora', 'Ponkan'), clementine ('Oroval', 'Caffin'), satsuma ('Okitsu', 'Owari') and Mediterranean mandarin ('Avana', 'Yusuf Efendi'). Hierarchical clustering and principal component analysis accurately differentiated between mandarin varieties and natural sub-groups according to their aroma-volatile profiles. CONCLUSIONS: Although we found wide differences in aroma-volatiles compositions among varieties belonging to different natural sub-groups, we detected only minor differences among varieties within any natural sub-group. These findings suggest that selecting appropriate parents would enable manipulation of aroma-volatile compositions in future mandarin breeding programmes" |
| Keywords: | Citrus/*chemistry/classification Fruit/*chemistry Humans Odorants/*analysis Plant Breeding Species Specificity Volatile Organic Compounds/*analysis aroma flavour mandarin volatiles; |
| Notes: | "MedlineGoldenberg, Livnat Yaniv, Yossi Doron-Faigenboim, Adi Carmi, Nir Porat, Ron eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2015/04/01 J Sci Food Agric. 2016 Jan 15; 96(1):57-65. doi: 10.1002/jsfa.7191. Epub 2015 Apr 24" |
