THE EFFECT OF FALL AND SPRING HARVESTING ON THE SUGAR CONTENT OF JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE TUBERS

1983 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 1111-1113 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. B. CHUBEY ◽  
D. G. DORRELL
Keyword(s):  
Reducing Sugars ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Jerusalem Artichoke ◽  
Reducing Sugar ◽  
Harvest Date ◽  
Helianthus Tuberosus ◽  
Harvest Dates

The Columbia cultivar of Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.), a potential fructose-producing crop, was grown at Morden, Manitoba and harvested in the fall from mid-August to mid-October, and in the spring from mid-April to mid-May. The total reducing sugar content increased as the tubers enlarged in the fall and decreased in the spring with the initiation and elongation of tuber sprouts. The fructose content, however, decreased with sequential fall harvest dates whereas it remained relatively stable during spring harvesting but at a lower concentration than in the fall-harvested tubers.Key words: Reducing sugars, fructose, harvest date

IRRIGATION, FERTILIZER, HARVEST DATES AND STORAGE EFFECTS ON THE REDUCING SUGAR AND FRUCTOSE CONCENTRATIONS OF JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE TUBERS

1977 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 591-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. DORRELL ◽  
B. B. CHUBEY
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Reducing Sugars ◽  
Tuber Yield ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Soluble Sugar ◽  
Jerusalem Artichoke ◽  
Reducing Sugar ◽  
Sugar Concentration ◽  
Variable Effect ◽  
Reducing Sugar Concentration

Several management practices were imposed on four Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.) accessions to determine changes in tuber yield, sugar content and the percentage of fructose and glucose in the hydrolyzed soluble sugar extracts. The fructose concentration in the reducing sugars declined from 82.3 to 74.2% from 6 September to 24 October. Storage of tubers at 2 C for up to 11 wk reduced the mean level of fructose from 78.2 to 68.0% and had a variable effect on reducing sugar concentration. Supplemental irrigation lowered the reducing sugar concentration significantly, while fertilization had no affect on any quality parameters. The Morden accession, M6, produced the best combination of high tuber yield (37.4 t/ha), reducing sugar concentration (16.3%) and fructose concentration in the reducing sugars (77.4%). Although a long period of growth was desirable to produce maximum yields of both tubers and total sugar, it was accompanied by a reduction in the ratio of fructose to glucose. This crop does not appear to require a high level of management to produce a good quality carbohydrate product.

scholarly journals Screening of potato genotypes based on glucose and Asparagines content to minimize Acrylamide formation in potato chips and French fries

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-304
Author(s):  
Fatema Zahan ◽  
Md Masudul Karim ◽  
Tahmina Akter ◽  
Md Alamgir Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Reducing Sugars ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Reducing Sugar ◽  
Potato Chips ◽  
French Fries ◽  
Potato Tubers ◽  
Botany Department ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Acrylamide Formation ◽  
Significant Difference

Seven potato genotypes that are available in Bangladesh, were grown at the field laboratory under the Crop Botany Department, Bangladesh Agricultural University in 2014. Reducing sugars and free asparagine were determined at freshly harvested potato tubers and those after storing at 80C for 8 months. There was no significant variation of asparagine content in all genotypes of freshly harvested tubers. But a significant difference was found in reducing sugar content. The lowest was in the samples of the genotypes Cardinal and Rumanapakri, and the highest in Hagrai. The variety Diamant appeared to contain the lowest amount of reducing sugars after 8 months storage. The results showed that freshly harvested Cardinal, Rumanapakri and Diamant after storage produced less amount of acrylamide after frying as potato chips or French fries. It may be concluded that screening potato genotypes primarily on their reducing sugar contents could be useful tool to minimize acrylamide formation in potato chips and French fries. Further investigation is needed to find out the factors affecting reducing sugar and asparagine content in potato tubers.Res. Agric., Livest. Fish.3(2): 295-304, August 2016

Some effects of gamma radiation on several varieties of Tasmanian potatoes. 2. Biochemical changes

1965 ◽  
Vol 5 (18) ◽  
pp. 289 ◽  
Author(s):  
PA Wills
Keyword(s):  
Ascorbic Acid ◽  
Gamma Radiation ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
Reducing Sugars ◽  
Starch Content ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Dehydroascorbic Acid ◽  
Ascorbic Acid Content ◽  
Reducing Sugar ◽  
Total Sugars

Tasmanian Up-to-date, Kennebec, Sebago, and Sequoia tubers were treated with low doses of gamma radiation to inhibit sprouting and were subsequently stored at 68�F or 45�F. Tubers were examined at bi-monthly intervals for some, or all, of the following biochemical constituents : dry matter, thiamin, reduced ascorbic acid, dehydroascorbic acid, total ascorbic acid, soluble reducing sugars, sucrose, total sugars, and starch. Radiation, independent of dose level, led to lower dry matter contents in the Up-to-date, Kennebec, and Sequoia tubers after four months storage, and in the Sebago tubers after six months storage at 68�F, but not at 45�F, when compared to the controls. The thiamin content of Up-to-date tubers w-as not influenced by radiation (16,000 rads). Storage w-as a more important factor than radiation in altering the ascorbic acid content of tubers. Radiation maintained, or even increased the normal level. Radiation increased the soluble reducing sugar content of Sequoia tubers, the total sugar of Sequoia and Sebago tubers, and the sucrose content of the Sebago tubers, but had little effect on the starch content of these varieties. Storage influenced some of these constituents, particularly in the Sebago variety.

scholarly journals Characterization and classification of Romanian acacia honey based on its physicochemical parameters and chemometrics

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihaela Emanuela Crăciun ◽  
Oana Cristina Pârvulescu ◽  
Andreea Cristina Donise ◽  
Tănase Dobre ◽  
Dumitru Radu Stanciu
Keyword(s):  
Physicochemical Parameters ◽  
Stable Carbon Isotopes ◽  
Reducing Sugars ◽  
Activity Ratio ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Reducing Sugar ◽  
Linear Discriminant ◽  
Acacia Honey

AbstractThree groups of Romanian acacia honey, i.e., pure, directly adulterated (by mixing the pure honey with three sugar syrups), and indirectly adulterated (by feeding the bees with the same syrups), were characterized and discriminated based on their physicochemical parameters. Moisture, ash, 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), reducing sugars (fructose and glucose), and sucrose contents, free acidity, diastase activity, ratio between stable carbon isotopes of honey and its proteins (δ13CH and δ13CP) were evaluated. Adulteration led to a significant increase in sucrose content, HMF level, and Δδ13C = δ13CH‒δ13CP as well a decrease in reducing sugar content and diastase activity. Principal component analysis (PCA) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) were applied to experimental data in order to distinguish between pure and adulterated honey. The most relevant discriminative parameters were diastase activity, HMF, sucrose, and reducing sugar contents. Posterior classification probabilities and classification functions obtained by LDA revealed that 100% of honey samples were correctly assigned to their original group.

scholarly journals Sugars in Staple Type Sweet Potatoes as Affected by Cooking and Storage

1969 ◽  
pp. 121-126
Author(s):  
Franklin W. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Ambient Temperature ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
Reducing Sugars ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Reducing Sugar ◽  
Sweet Potatoes ◽  
Microwave Baking ◽  
Before And After ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Starchy Foods

Staple type sweet potatoes with little or no sweetness after cooking, and that appear to be suitable as everyday starchy foods, have been developed. The reducing and non-reducing sugar contents of these cultivars before and after microwave baking, and before and after storage, were compared with those of conventional sweet cultivars. The non-reducing sugar content is reduced slightly by baking in most cultivars. The reducing sugar content greatly increases with baking except in a few staple types. A series of varieties can be distinguished with respect to sugar changes. Storage at ambient temperature for 1 to 2 months results in slight increases in non-reducing sugar contents and little change in reducing sugars. Sugar contents before or after baking or storage are not related to dry matter, starch or protein contents. However, staple and sub staple cultivars are characterized by a drier mouthfeel.

scholarly journals Physiological and biochemical changes in ‘Fuyu’ persimmon buds during dormancy

2022 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriely Pinto Pereira ◽  
Felipe Francisco ◽  
Aline José Maia ◽  
Renato Vasconcelos Botelho ◽  
Luiz Antonio Biasi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Content ◽  
Reducing Sugars ◽  
Respiratory Activity ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Reducing Sugar ◽  
Biochemical Changes ◽  
Guaiacol Peroxidase ◽  
Chilling Hours ◽  
Physiological And Biochemical ◽  
Low Activity

ABSTRACT: This study identified physiological and biochemical changes in ‘Fuyu’ persimmon buds during dormancy. Branches were collected between March and August 2015. Dormancy was evaluated by biological testing of isolated node cuttings at 25 °C and a photoperiod of 16 h. The variables analyzed were water content; reducing sugar content; respiratory activity; activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), ascorbate peroxidase (APX), guaiacol peroxidase (POD) and polyphenol oxidase (PPO) enzymes; hydrogen peroxide content (H2O2) and lipid peroxidation. At the end of March 2015, the plants were already dormant, and the leaves and fruits present indicated a paradormancy effect. Induction of endodormancy may have occurred in June 2015, when chilling hours (CH) below 7.2 °C and higher CH below 12 °C began to accumulate, which coincided with the period in which there was a decrease in water content and respiratory activity, an increase in reducing sugars, a decrease in SOD, CAT, APX and PPO and an increase in H2O2. After an accumulation of 553 CH below 12 °C, the budburst capacity increased, and the buds presented increased water content, decreased reducing sugars content, increased respiratory activity, low activity in SOD, CAT, APX and POD and high levels of H2O2.

scholarly journals Effect of sucrose in a holding solution on some processes associated with ageing of cut carnations

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-237
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Łukaszewska
Keyword(s):  
Reducing Sugars ◽  
Initial Level ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Reducing Sugar ◽  
Vase Life ◽  
Anthocyanin Content ◽  
Sugar Levels ◽  
Time Of Harvest ◽  
Sucrose Level ◽  
Exogenous Sugar

Vase-life of cut carnations and their response to a preservative (8-HQS+S) depended on the sucrose and reducing sugar content in the petals at the time of harvest. The reducing sugar level decreased in the wilted flowers kept in water and increased above the initial level in the carnations given sucrose in a holding solution. This increase in reducing sugars was small or 2-3 fold in the flowers with high and low initial sugar levels, respectively. Changes in the endogenous sucrose levels in the petals were less pronounced but a trend (i.e. increase-decrease) was also dependent on the initial sucrose level. Considerable sucrose accumulation was found in the leaves of plants placed in the solution of 5% sucrose plus 200 ppm 8-HQS. Use of an exogenous sugar in a holding solution prevented an increase in free amino acids in carnation petals, a symptom for flower ageing. Carnations placed in a preservative solution had a had anthocyanin content then the control flowers. Lower activities of acid phosphatases and RNases were found in the flowers placed in the solutions tested as compared to those kept in water.

TOTAL REDUCING SUGAR, FRUCTOSE AND GLUCOSE CONCENTRATIONS AND ROOT YIELD OF TWO CHICORY CULTIVARS AS AFFECTED BY IRRIGATION, FERTILIZER AND HARVEST DATES

1978 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 789-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. B. CHUBEY ◽  
D. G. DORRELL
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Reducing Sugars ◽  
Reducing Sugar ◽  
Carbohydrate Composition ◽  
Root Yield ◽  
Yield Parameters ◽  
Harvest Dates ◽  
High Fructose ◽  
Carbohydrate Quality ◽  
Total Reducing Sugars

The effects of several management practices on the carbohydrate composition and root yield of two chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) cultivars were investigated during two successive seasons. Supplemental irrigation and fertilizer did not affect the carbohydrate quality and yield parameters. The two cultivars varied considerably in their performance in the 2 yr, ranging from 17.4 to 19.2% in total reducing sugars of which 79.2–81.9% was fructose and 18.1–20.8% was glucose. Root yields ranged from 20.08 to 35.68 T/ha. Delayed harvesting in both years increased root yield, total reducing sugars and glucose concentrations but decreased fructose concentration. Chicory has the potential of producing a good quality carbohydrate product and deserves serious consideration as a high fructose crop.

scholarly journals Changes of Physiochemical and Enzymatic Activities of doenjang Prepared with Different Amount of Rice koji during 30 Days of Fermentation

Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 372
Author(s):  
Yongwoo Jo ◽  
Woo-suk Bang ◽  
Mina K. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Reducing Sugars ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Acid Value ◽  
Reducing Sugar ◽  
Enzymatic Activities ◽  
Lower Amount ◽  
Total Sugars ◽  
Fermentation Period ◽  
Protein Enzyme

Koji is an intermediate fermentation agent, made by inoculating known microorganisms in grains, such as rice, beans, and barley, to hydrolyze starch or protein. The quality of koji can influence the final quality of doenjang. This study aimed to investigate changes in the physiochemical and enzymatic activities of doenjang prepared with different amounts of rice koji during a 30-day fermentation period. Three doenjang samples were prepared with varying levels of rice koji: K1 (11% reduced), K2 (control), K3 (11% increased). Physiochemical characteristics including pH, TA, acid value, moisture content, color, sugar and reducing sugar content, and enzymatic activities including α- and β-Amylase, acidic and neutral protease activities. Samples were taken every 5 days for 30 days of fermentation period. The doenjang with a high content of rice koji had higher levels of total sugars, reducing sugars, alcohol, and protein enzyme activity than the doenjang samples with a lower content of rice koji (p < 0.05). However, no differences in the physiochemical and enzymatic activities were found between the doenjang made with a lower amount of koji and the control doenjang during fermentation (p > 0.05).

scholarly journals Carbohydrate metabolism in floral structures of Lilium pumilum in different development stages

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 1142-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirelle Nayana de Sousa Santos ◽  
Ana Maria Mapeli ◽  
Márcia Martins Tolentino
Keyword(s):  
Carbohydrate Metabolism ◽  
Reducing Sugars ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Soluble Sugars ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Reducing Sugar ◽  
Energy Potential ◽  
Open Flower ◽  
Total Soluble Sugars ◽  
Development Stages

ABSTRACT: Lilium pumilum is a species that stands out in floriculture for presenting orange inflorescences that attract the consumer. This study thus aimed at characterizing the carbohydrate metabolism of floral structures of L. pumilum in different development stages. For this purpose, carbohydrate levels (total soluble sugars, reducing sugars, non-reducing sugars, and starch), at different floral stages (E0 - bud with no color; E1 - bud at early coloring; E2 - orange bud; E3 - open flower; E4 - senescent flower) were quantified after extraction with ethanol. Lilium pumilum flowers showed high energy potential during floral opening and senescence; total soluble sugars were the main carbohydrates present in the species, reducing with the floral development, and the same occurred with the non-reducing sugar and starch contents. The reducing-sugar content increased with the floral stages. Therefore, this species presents great mobilization of compounds, which are utilized in the production of energy that is employed in floral opening.

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