Biodiversity in a Tomato Germplasm for Free Amino Acid and Pigment Content of Ripening Fruits英文文献资料.docVIP

American Journal of Plant Sciences, 2011, 2, 255-261 doi:10.4236/ajps.2011.22027 Published Online June 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ajps) Biodiversity in a Tomato Germplasm for Free Amino Acid and Pigment Content of Ripening Fruits Guillermo Raúl Pratta , Gustavo Rubén Rodríguez , Roxana Zorzoli , Liliana Amelia Picardi , 1,2 1,2 2,3 2,3 Estela Marta Valle 1,4 1 National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 2 Chair of Genetics, Agronomic Sciences Faculty, National University of Rosario, Zavalla, Argentine; 4 3 Council for Research of the National University of Rosario, Zavalla, Argentine; Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology of Rosario, CONICET/Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty, Suipacha, Rosario, Argentine. Email: gpratta@.ar, gpratta@.ar Received March 8 , 2011; revised March 25 , 2011; accepted May 6 , 2011. th th th ABSTRACT Free amino acid and pigment composition in fruits at two ripening stages from a selected tomato germplasm was stud- ied. The aims were contributing to knowledge on variability of ripening metabolism and identifying more consistently the genetic background of the plant material under analysis. Significant differences (p 0.05) were found among rip- ening stages and among genotypes within ripening stage for all amino acids and pigments except by asparagine, alanine and chlorophyll b contents. The highest relative amino acid content corresponded to glutamate, glutamine, and GABA though some genotypes had relatively high asparagine content. Glutamate, glutamine and GABA performed op- positely: the former increased along ripening while