Survey of the Genus Lycopersicon for Variability in α-Tomatine Content1
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- 1 October 1982
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Horticultural Science in HortScience
- Vol. 17 (5) , 764-766
- https://doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.17.5.764
Abstract
Twenty-seven accessions from 6 species of the genus Lycopersicon and 1 accession of Solanum pennellii were surveyed for content of the glycoalkaloid, α-to-matine. Significant variation in alkaloid content was found to exist among the accessions. L. esculentum cultivars were found to contain much lower concentrations of α-tomatine than accessions of L. esculentum var. cerasiforme, L. pimpinellifolium, and the L. peruvianum accession, LA 462.Keywords
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