Claim · model-written summary
Cucumber skin had more pigments and tocopherols than flesh.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativust0 - Organ / stage
- Skin tissuese0
- Outcome
- pigments and tocopherolse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- fleshe0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Skin tissues contained significantly higher levels of pigments and tocopherols compared to flesh”
t0“cucumber”
Title
Tilen Zamljen; Helena Šircelj; Robert Veberič; et al. Foods 2024. doi:10.3390/foods13030401
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Biostimulants reduced cucumber yield about 13% versus control.
- Intervention effect Biostimulants reduced cucumber fruit number about 13% versus control.
- Intervention effect Biostimulants produced darker cucumber fruits.
- Intervention effect Fitostim improved cucumber dry weight at initial harvest.
- Observation Chlorophyll a and b constituted 80% of measured pigments.
- Observation Alpha tocopherol comprised 80% to 90% of tocopherols.
- Intervention effect Phylgreen decreased first-harvest skin tocopherol by 19.91 mg/kg DW.
- Intervention effect Fitostim decreased first-harvest skin tocopherol by 9.43 mg/kg DW.