Subjects: Biology >> Botany >> Applied botany submitted time 2022-07-05 Cooperative journals: 《广西植物》
Abstract： In order to provide a scientific basis for optimum harvest time, the nutrient changes of avocado (Persea americana) fruit during the growth and development were studied. An approach of inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry, ion exchange chromatography derived after ninhydrin column, reflux extraction, burning and GC-MS technique was applied to determine the contents of mineral elements, ash, amino acids, crude fat, and fatty acid composition in three avocado cultivars (‘HASS’, ‘V3’ and ‘V4’), at different growth and development time from June to December. The results were as follows: (1) Oleic acid was the main oil component in the three avocado cultivars. The contents of crude fat in ‘HASS’ and ‘V4’ fruits increased continuously during the growth and development stages, and reached to the maximum on December, while V3 fruit increased continuously from June to October, but decreased in November and December. (2) All fruits of ‘HASS’, ‘V3’ and ‘V4’ contain 17 kinds of amino acids, including 7 essential (THR, MET, VAL, LEU, ILE, PHE, LYS) for human beings, 2 essential (ARG, HIS) for children, and 8 non-essential (PRO, TYR, CYS, ALA, GLY, GLU, SER, ASP) amino acids. The contents of 17 amino acids in ‘HASS’ and ‘V3’ fruits reached to the peak in November, while ‘V4’ fruits reached to the peak in October. (3) All the ‘HASS’, ‘V3’ and ‘V4’ fruits contain 9 mineral elements of P, K, Ca, Mg, Zn, Fe, Mn, Cu and Na. Among which, the contents of P, K, Zn, Fe and Na accumulated to the maximum in the later stages of growth (October to December), while the changes for the other four mineral elements were not obvious. (4) The variation of ash contents in the three cultivars of avocado was similar to that of the crude fat. It suggests that the three studied avocado cultivars, ‘HASS’, ‘V3’ and ‘V4’, have met the picking requirements since October and can be optimized the harvest time following fluctuations in demand.
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