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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (13): 130-136.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2021-0522

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Study on the Biochemical Components’ Diversity and Pharmacodynamic Components’ Characteristics of 18 Lithocarpus litseifolius Resource Accessions

YANG Zhiling1,2(), TAN Zifeng1,2, YANG Xu1,2, TIAN Zhaoxia1   

  1. 1 Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou 311400
    2 Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou 311400
  • Received:2021-05-17 Revised:2023-03-06 Online:2023-05-05 Published:2023-04-27

Abstract:

This paper aims to understand the characteristics of rich biochemical components and pharmacodynamic components of Lithocarpus litseifolius, and to provide a basis for mining specific resources and breeding high-quality characteristic varieties. In this study, 18 accessions of L. litseifolius were selected as test materials, from which spring tender leaves with one bud and two leaves were picked to prepare tea samples, and then, the diversity of conventional biochemical components, nutritional components and pharmacodynamic components were analyzed respectively. Its results showed that the water extract content ranged from 18.20% to 52.2%, among which 10 accessions with water extract content higher than 35%. The tea polyphenols content varied from 10.50% to 21.30%, and 5 accessions of resources had tea polyphenols >18.00%. The variation of free amino acids was from 0.37% to 6.27%, and among which 7 accessions had the total amount of free amino acids more than 2.33%. The variation range of caffeine was from 0% to 0.03%, and there were 4 accessions with caffeine of 0%. The content of ascorbic acid, protein, soluble sugar and reduced sugar ranged between 1.25 and 39.7 mg/100 g, 8.61% and 18.00%, 2.56% and 9.67%, and 2.06% and 7.74%, respectively. The variation range of total flavonoids, phloridzin, trilobatin, and dihydroaurone content were 4.18-10.08, 0.59-9.17, 1.13-29.58 and 10.30-30.75 g/100 g among the 18 resource accessions, respectively. There were 9, 4, 11 and 10 resource accessions in which the content of total flavonoids, phloridzin, trilobatin and dihydrothearone were higher than the average, individually. The ratio of phenol to ammonia could be used as a biochemical index of L. litseifolius sweet tea processing suitability. The primary selection results suggested that 8 accessions of resources were suitable materials to make green tea, 7 accessions were suitable to make black and green tea, and 3 accessions were susitable to make black tea, respectively. Besides, water extract, tea polyphenols, free amino acids, caffeine, total flavonoids, phloridzin, trilobatin, dihydrothearone, protein, reducing sugar and soluble sugar of L. litseifolius sweet tea enriched soluble and flavoring substances of tea soup, and they could be used as the evaluation indexes of sweet tea quality. And what’s more, the conventional biochemical components, nutritional components and main pharmacodynamic components of the 18 tested accessions of L. litseifolius varied significantly, and these accessions were valuable resources of further screening for specific varieties.

Key words: Lithocarpus litseifolius, sweet tea, biochemical components, nutritional components, pharmacodynamic components, quality index