Abstract
Summary This study reports changes in the concentrations of important health‐related bioactive compounds (vitamin C and ellagic acid) and morphology of wild harvested Kakadu plum fruits that were collected during three harvest seasons and four maturities. The results showed that fruit weight increased, whereas fruit length and width changed slightly with the advance in maturity. Vitamin C increased up to 20 folds (from 1.2 to 21.2% dry weight [DW]) from immature to mature stage, whereas ellagic acid decreased approximately three times (from 6.5 to 2.1% DW). Similar trends were observed over the three harvest seasons studied. A positive correlation between fruit weight and vitamin C, whereas a negative correlation with ellagic acid was observed, indicating that maturity plays an important role in contributing to the variation of ellagic acid and vitamin C. Season also had an effect and showed the influences of rainfall, temperature and solar exposure on the biosynthesis of vitamin C and ellagic acid.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit weight increased with maturity.
- Taxon
- Terminalia ferdinandiana
Terminalia ferdinandianat0 - Organ / stage
- maturitye0
- Outcome
- fruit weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“fruit weight increased, whereas fruit length and width changed slightly with the advance in maturity”
t0“Terminalia ferdinandiana”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit length and width changed slightly with maturity.
- Taxon
- Terminalia ferdinandianaTerminalia ferdinandianat0
- Organ / stage
- maturitye0
- Outcome
- fruit length and widthe0
- Direction
- changed slightlye0
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Verbatim
e0“fruit weight increased, whereas fruit length and width changed slightly with the advance in maturity”
t0“Terminalia ferdinandiana”
Claim · model-written summary
Vitamin C rose about 20-fold from immature to mature fruit.
- Taxon
- Terminalia ferdinandianaTerminalia ferdinandianat0
- Organ / stage
- mature stagee0
- Outcome
- Vitamin Ce0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 21.2% dry weight [DW]e0
- Qualifier
- from 1.2e0
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Verbatim
e0“Vitamin C increased up to 20 folds (from 1.2 to 21.2% dry weight [DW]) from immature to mature stage”
t0“Terminalia ferdinandiana”
Claim · model-written summary
Ellagic acid fell about threefold with maturity.
- Taxon
- Terminalia ferdinandianaTerminalia ferdinandianat0
- Organ / stage
- mature stagee1
- Outcome
- ellagic acide0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Value
- 2.1% DWe0
- Qualifier
- from 6.5e0
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Verbatim
e0“ellagic acid decreased approximately three times (from 6.5 to 2.1% DW)”
e1“from immature to mature stage”
t0“Terminalia ferdinandiana”
Claim · model-written summary
Vitamin C and ellagic acid maturity trends were similar across three seasons.
- Taxon
- Terminalia ferdinandianaTerminalia ferdinandianat0
- Outcome
- Similar trendse0
- Qualifier
- three harvest seasonse0
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Verbatim
e0“Similar trends were observed over the three harvest seasons studied”
e1“important health‐related bioactive compounds (vitamin C and ellagic acid)”
t0“Terminalia ferdinandiana”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit weight correlated positively with vitamin C.
- Taxon
- Terminalia ferdinandianaTerminalia ferdinandianat0
- Compound
- vitamin Ce0
- Outcome
- fruit weighte0
- Direction
- positivee0
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Verbatim
e0“A positive correlation between fruit weight and vitamin C”
t0“Terminalia ferdinandiana”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit weight correlated negatively with ellagic acid.
- Taxon
- Terminalia ferdinandianaTerminalia ferdinandianat0
- Compound
- ellagic acide0
- Outcome
- fruit weighte1
- Direction
- negativee0
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Verbatim
e0“a negative correlation with ellagic acid was observed”
e1“fruit weight and vitamin C”
t0“Terminalia ferdinandiana”
Claim · model-written summary
Season and weather influenced vitamin C and ellagic acid biosynthesis.
- Taxon
- Terminalia ferdinandianaTerminalia ferdinandianat0
- Outcome
- biosynthesis of vitamin C and ellagic acide0
- Setting
- Seasone0
Not reportedDirection
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Verbatim
e0“Season also had an effect and showed the influences of rainfall, temperature and solar exposure on the biosynthesis of vitamin C and ellagic acid”
t0“Terminalia ferdinandiana”