Claim · model-written summary
Three hours of UV-AB raised multiple phenolics in ripe tomato fruit relative to other UV treatments.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- Supplemental UV-AB (3 hexposure)e0
- Outcome
- accumulation of a number of phenolic compounds including chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, chicoric acid, luteolin-7-glucoside, and other flavonoidse0
- Direction
- increasinge0
- Comparator
- other UV treatmentse0
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Verbatim
e0“Supplemental UV-AB (3 hexposure) was generally more effective than other UV treatments in increasing the accumulation of a number of phenolic compounds including chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, chicoric acid, luteolin-7-glucoside, and other flavonoids in ripe tomato fruits.”
Title
Myungjin Lee; Cary Rivard; Eleni Pliakoni; et al. American Journal of Plant Sciences 2021. doi:10.4236/ajps.2021.121007
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect UV-A raised total phenolic accumulation and antioxidant capacity in red leaf lettuce relative to other treatments.
- Intervention effect UV-A increased several named phenolic compounds in red leaf lettuce relative to other UV treatments and control.
- Intervention effect UV-B lowered accumulation of named phenolics in red and green leaf lettuce.
- Intervention effect UV-AB lowered accumulation of named phenolics in red and green leaf lettuce.
- Intervention effect UV-A did not change total phenolic concentration in tomato fruit.
- Intervention effect Three hours of UV-B raised tomato fruit total phenolics relative to other UV treatments.
- Intervention effect Nine hours of UV-AB raised tomato fruit total phenolics relative to other UV treatments.
- Intervention effect UV-A increased lutein and β-carotene accumulation relative to other UV treatments in tomatoes.
- Intervention effect UV-AB increased lycopene accumulation in fully ripe tomatoes.
- Observation Green leaf lettuce was more responsive than red leaf lettuce to supplemental UV for essential nutrients.
- Intervention effect All supplemental UV treatments increased protein concentration in green leaf lettuce.
- Intervention effect UV-AB raised protein, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur and zinc in green leaf lettuce Two Star more than other treatments.
- Intervention effect Supplemental UV treatments did not affect essential nutrients in fully ripe tomato fruit.