Characterisation of bioactive compounds and assessment of antioxidant activity of different traditional Lycopersicum esculentum L. varieties: chemometric analysis

Abstract

Eight different Serbian genotypes were analysed for their polyphenol, carotenoid, vitamin C content and evaluated for their antioxidant properties. The highest content of biologically important carotenoids such as lutein (4.58 mg/10 g), lycopene (160.64 mg/10 g) and β-carotene (189.64 mg/10 g) were detected in the genotype S606. Rutin was the most abundant phenolic compound in all tastes samples, but its content is highest in the genotype S615 (1424.30 µg/100 g dw). All tomato samples were the great source of vitamin C, where the sample S615 stood out (68.54 mg AA g⁻¹ of dw). Their content of antioxidant compounds suggested that genotypes S606 and S615 showed the best antioxidant potential. Principal component analysis (PCA) and Partial least squares (PLS) were applied to analyse results. The results obtained in the present study could be of considerable interest for breeding programmes wishing to select tomato genotypes with high biological and nutritional properties.

Keywords:

• Lycopersicum esculentum L.
• genotype
• polyphenols
• carotenoids
• antioxidant potential
• chemometric

Acknowledgements

This work was benefited from the networking activities within the European funded COST Action FA1106 QualityFruit.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, Serbia [Grant No. 172058] and in part by CICYT [AGL2013-49083-C3-1-R] and the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, ISCIII (CIBEROBN) from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MEC) and Generalitat de Catalunya (GC) 2014 SGR 773.