Abstract
Sugar accumulation and sugar metabolism enzyme activities were measured in two distinct pumpkin cultivars, 'Miyako' (C. maxima) and 'Hayato' (C. moschata) during fruit development. Sugar accumulation levels in the fruits were different between these cultivars. At the harvesting stage, more glucose and fructose were accumulated in 'Hayato' than in 'Miyako'. Sucrose content was low in young fruit when its catabolic enzyme activities were highest. The accumulation of sucrose with fruit development in both cultivars coincided with increasing sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS) activity and decreasing catabolic enzyme activities. The amount of sucrose content was indistinguishable in both cultivars, whereas, higher SPS activity was observed in 'Hayato', SPS contributes to sucrose accumulation in the late stage of pumpkin fruit development, but the amount of accumulated sucrose could not be explained solely on SPS activity.
Abstract from the paper’s OpenAlex record, shown for indexing and research. Copyright remains with the authors or the publisher. Read at the source ↗
The text the model read, with the source record’s inline markup (italics, sub- and superscripts) rendered and its character entities decoded; quote offsets refer to the raw text.
Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
At harvest, Hayato accumulated more glucose and fructose than Miyako.
- Taxon
- Cucurbita maxima and C. moschata
Cucurbita maxima
Cucurbita moschatat0 - Material
- 'Hayato'e0
- Organ / stage
- harvesting stagee0
- Outcome
- glucose and fructosee0
- Direction
- moree0
- Comparator
- 'Miyako'e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“At the harvesting stage, more glucose and fructose were accumulated in 'Hayato' than in 'Miyako'”
t0“Cucurbita maxima and C. moschata”
Claim · model-written summary
Sucrose content was low in young fruit when catabolic enzyme activity was highest.
- Taxon
- Cucurbita maxima and C. moschataCucurbita maximaCucurbita moschatat0
- Organ / stage
- young fruite0
- Gene
- catabolic enzymee0
- Outcome
- Sucrose contente0
- Direction
- lowe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Sucrose content was low in young fruit when its catabolic enzyme activities were highest”
t0“Cucurbita maxima and C. moschata”
Claim · model-written summary
Sucrose accumulation during fruit development coincided with increasing SPS activity in both cultivars.
- Taxon
- Cucurbita maxima and C. moschataCucurbita maximaCucurbita moschatat0
- Gene
- sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS)e0
- Outcome
- accumulation of sucrosee0
- Direction
- accumulatione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The accumulation of sucrose with fruit development in both cultivars coincided with increasing sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS) activity”
t0“Cucurbita maxima and C. moschata”
Claim · model-written summary
Sucrose accumulation during fruit development coincided with decreasing catabolic enzyme activity.
- Taxon
- Cucurbita maxima and C. moschataCucurbita maximaCucurbita moschatat0
- Organ / stage
- fruit developmente0
- Outcome
- catabolic enzyme activitiese0
- Direction
- decreasinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The accumulation of sucrose with fruit development in both cultivars coincided with increasing sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS) activity and decreasing catabolic enzyme activities”
t0“Cucurbita maxima and C. moschata”
Claim · model-written summary
Both cultivars had indistinguishable sucrose contents.
- Taxon
- Cucurbita maxima and C. moschataCucurbita maximaCucurbita moschatat0
- Outcome
- sucrose contente0
- Direction
- indistinguishablee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The amount of sucrose content was indistinguishable in both cultivars”
t0“Cucurbita maxima and C. moschata”
Claim · model-written summary
Hayato had higher SPS activity than Miyako.
- Taxon
- Cucurbita maxima and C. moschataCucurbita maximaCucurbita moschatat0
- Material
- 'Hayato'e0
- Outcome
- SPS activitye0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- 'Miyako'e1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“higher SPS activity was observed in 'Hayato'”
e1“'Miyako' (C. maxima) and 'Hayato' (C. moschata)”
t0“Cucurbita maxima and C. moschata”
Claim · model-written summary
SPS contributes to sucrose accumulation late in pumpkin fruit development.
- Taxon
- Cucurbita maxima and C. moschataCucurbita maximaCucurbita moschatat0
- Organ / stage
- late stage of pumpkin fruit developmente0
- Gene
- SPSe0
- Outcome
- sucrose accumulatione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“SPS contributes to sucrose accumulation in the late stage of pumpkin fruit development”
t0“Cucurbita maxima and C. moschata”
Claim · model-written summary
SPS activity alone could not explain accumulated sucrose amounts.
- Taxon
- Cucurbita maxima and C. moschataCucurbita maximaCucurbita moschatat0
- Gene
- SPSe0
- Outcome
- amount of accumulated sucrosee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the amount of accumulated sucrose could not be explained solely on SPS activity”
t0“Cucurbita maxima and C. moschata”