Response of total phenols, flavonoids, minerals, and amino acids of four edible fern species to four shading treatments
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- Subject Areas
- Agricultural Science, Ecology, Plant Science
- Keywords
- shading, edible fern species, total phenols, flavonoids, amino acids, minerals
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- © 2019 Wang et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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- 2019. Response of total phenols, flavonoids, minerals, and amino acids of four edible fern species to four shading treatments. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27782v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27782v1
Abstract
Total phenols, flavonoids, minerals content and amino acids content were investigated in four fern species grown under four shading treatments with different transmittance of 35% full sunlight (FS), 13% FS, 8% FS and 4% FS. The four fern species contain high levels of total phenols and flavonoids, as well as abundant mineral elements and amino acids. The total phenols, flavonoids, minerals and amino acids content were strongly affected by transmittance, the total phenols and flavonoids content were significantly positively correlated with transmittance, and minerals and total amino acids content were significantly negatively correlated with transmittance. Higher light intensity can effectively stimulate the synthesis of phenols and flavonoid, and proper shading can stimulate the accumulation of amino acids. In addition, Matteuccia struthiopteris (L.) Todaro (MS) had the highest total phenols content, Athyrium multidentatum (Doll.) Ching (AM) showed the highest total amino acids, total essential amino acids content, Osmunda cinnamomea (L) var. asiatica Fernald (OCA) exhibited the highest total non-essential amino acids content and flavonoids content, and Pteridium aquilinum L. Kuhn var latiusculum (Desy.) Underw. ex Heller (PAL) exhibited the highest minerals content. This will provide a scientific basis for the cultivation and management of four fern species.
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