著者

Zheng Wang Akira Ando Atsuko Takeuchi Hiroshi Ueda

出版者

Japanese Society for Food Science and Technology

雑誌

Food Science and Technology Research (ISSN:13446606)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.24, no.3, pp.421-425, 2018 (Released:2018-07-25)

参考文献数

31

被引用文献数

1 3

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This study sought to determine the optimal cooking conditions under which lutein would be maintained while oxalic acid and nitrate ion would be removed. The effects of cooking temperature and time control on the concentration of oxalic acid, nitrate ion, and lutein in spinach were investigated. The results demonstrated that boiling at 100°C for 2 min was the optimal cooking condition. This preserved approximately 77% of lutein while 67% of oxalic acid and 30% of nitrate ion were removed. If nitrate ion is disregarded, we also found that submerging in hot water at 60°C for 30 s was another optimal condition. In this case, 96% of lutein remained, 28% of oxalic acid was removed, whereas the content of nitrate ion was unchanged.

著者

Yuta Yamanouchi Akira Ando Yuko Takano-Ishikawa Hiroshi Ueda

出版者

Japanese Society for Food Science and Technology

雑誌

Food Science and Technology Research (ISSN:13446606)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.FSTR-D-22-00186, (Released:2023-08-08)

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Brassicaceae vegetables contain glucosinolate (GSL), which is well known for its role in the plant defense system, bitter substances, and functional components. This study reported the GSL profiles of 18 GSLs in 14 Brassicaceae vegetables (kale, cabbage, kohlrabi, broccoli, cauliflower, komatsuna, pak choi, turnip, choy sum, Chinese cabbage, rutabaga, leaf mustard, leaf radish, and radish root) consisting of 64 cultivars grown in Japan. The GSL compositions showed specific trends among each species, and furthermore, there was considerable variation in the total and individual GSL contents among the cultivars and tissues of the same vegetable. Because each vegetable was grown under the same conditions, this variation was expected to primarily be due to the genetic background. It is desirable to collect additional data from commonly distributed cultivars to conduct more detailed studies on GSLs in Brassicaceae vegetables, such as investigating a negative correlation between GSL consumption and cancer risk.

著者

Hiroki Ueno Takeshi Maeda Naoki Katsuyama Yu Katou Satoshi Matsuo Kanako Yano Akira Ando Kaori Nagasuga Mizuki Yamada Shunsuke Imanishi

出版者

一般社団法人 園芸学会

雑誌

The Horticulture Journal (ISSN:21890102)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.OKD-101, (Released:2017-10-11)

被引用文献数

11

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Several Japanese tomato cultivars develop a physiological disorder called leaf marginal necrosis, which occurs in relatively young compound leaves. Although the positions of the observed symptoms differ from those caused by inadequate potassium (K+) supplementation, previous studies have reported a relationship between the reduction of K+ content and the occurrence of this disorder. However, the mechanism of the relationship between K+ deficiency and leaf marginal necrosis remains unstudied. In the present study, the relationship between K+ deficiency in leaflets and leaf marginal necrosis was investigated by cation measurement and gene expression analysis to understand the possible mechanism responsible for the induction of leaf marginal necrosis. First, cation measurement of the two cultivars differing in their symptom intensities showed a trend of K+ reduction in the ‘CF Momotaro J’ cultivar developing leaf marginal necrosis at the tip leaflets positioned under the flowering fruit truss. Next, a comparison between the basal and tip region of the leaflet from four cultivars differing in their symptom intensities revealed that the K+ concentration in tip leaflets was significantly lower in the tip regions compared to the basal region, especially in the two cultivars ‘CF Momotaro J’ and ‘Momotaro grande’, leading to leaf marginal necrosis. The gene expression analysis of the basal and tip regions identified that the expression patterns of jasmonate-related genes were upregulated in the tomato leaflets with low K+ concentration. The gene expression of a leaf senescence marker gene, a homologue of the SAG12 gene of Arabidopsis thaliana, was detected only in the leaf tip region samples with the lowest K+ concentration. Furthermore, ‘CF Momotaro J’ plants cultivated with K+-supplemented medium showed an increase in the K+ concentration, a decrease in the occurrence of leaf marginal necrosis, and down-regulation of the expression of jasmonate-related genes in tip leaflets. These results indicate that tomato leaf marginal necrosis occurs because of K+ starvation in the tip region of leaflets, leading to the activation of jasmonate-induced signal for necrosis.