Quantitation of Flavonoid Constituents in Citrus Fruits

• Published in: Journal of agricultural and food chemistry 1999-09, Vol.47 (9), p.3565-3571
• Main Authors: Kawaii, Satoru, Tomono, Yasuhiko, Katase, Eriko, Ogawa, Kazunori, Yano, Masamichi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions; Analysis of Variance; Biological and medical sciences; Citrus - chemistry; Citrus - classification; Flavonoids - analysis; Food industries; Freeze Drying; Fruit and vegetable industries; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General pharmacology; Genetics and breeding of economic plants; Medical sciences; Pharmacognosy. Homeopathy. Health food; Pharmacology. Drug treatments; Varietal selection. Specialized plant breeding, plant breeding aims; Yield, quality, earliness, varia
• ISSN: 0021-8561; 1520-5118
• DOI: 10.1021/jf990153+

Twenty-four flavonoids have been determined in 66 Citrus species and near-citrus relatives, grown in the same field and year, by means of reversed phase high-performance liquid chromatography analysis. Statistical methods have been applied to find relations among the species. The F ratios of 21 flavonoids obtained by applying ANOVA analysis are significant, indicating that a classification of the species using these variables is reasonable to pursue. Principal component analysis revealed that the distributions of Citrus species belonging to different classes were largely in accordance with Tanaka's classification system. Keywords: Citrus; near-citrus relatives; flavonoids; HPLC; multivariate analysis