Chunxiang Yang

Inheritance of anthocyanins in berries of Vitis vinifera grapes

Inheritance patterns for table grape anthocyanins were investigated on three cross offspring populations during two successive years. Sixteen anthocyanins were detected, and all were monoglucoside derivatives. The proportion of anthocyanins in the maternal parent determined the proportion of anthocyanins in the offspring. But the absolute content of the maternal parent had no significant effect on progenies. Peonidin 3-O-glucoside and malvidin 3-O-glucoside were the most abundant anthocyanins, not only in the maternal parent but also in the progenies. The presence or absence of anthocyanins in grape skin was inheritance of a quality character controlled by oligogenes, and anthocyanins content was a quantitative character controlled by polygenes. Via principal component (PC) analysis, factors that affected the total content of cross progeny populations were peonidin 3-O-glucoside, malvidin 3-O-glucoside, delphinidin 3-O-glucoside, cyanidin 3-O-glucoside, petunidin 3-O-glucoside, peonidin 3-O-(6-O-coumaryl)-glucoside, and malvidin 3-O-(6-O-coumaryl)-glucoside. Anthocyanins content was a high broad sense heritability character (H2), and H2 was stable in different cross combinations (ranging from 0.65 to 0.98).

Corrigendum to “Effect of grape genotype and tissue type on callus growth and production of resveratrols and their piceids after UV-C irradiation” [Food Chemistry 122 (2010) 475–481]

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Anthocyanin composition and content in grape berry skin in Vitis germplasm

see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2010.07.038 DOI of original article: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2010.03.055 * Corresponding author at: Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing E-mail address: shhli@wbgcas.cn (S. Li). International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams (Grant No. 0921101001) and the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KSCX2-YW-G075-24).