อลิษา สุนทรวัฒน์. Chlorophyll degradation in vacuoles of postharvest Japanese bunching onion (Allium fistulosum L. cv. Kujyo). Master's Degree(Postharvest Technology). King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi. KMUTT Library. : King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, 2011.
Chlorophyll degradation in vacuoles of postharvest Japanese bunching onion (Allium fistulosum L. cv. Kujyo)
Abstract:
The yellowing at a tip of Japanese bunching onion (Allium fistulosum L. cv. Kujyo)
during storage is usually observed and this problem relates to the loss of external quality
due to chlorophyll degradation. The chlorophyll catabolisms of Japanese bunching
onion have been reported that it occurred in the chloroplast, however it may also occur
inside the vacuole. Therefore, this experiment was subjected to study the changes of
chlorophyll contents and its derivatives in Japanese bunching onion during storage. The
vacuoles from Japanese bunching onion were separated for analyzing the chlorophyll
catabolites. The purification of vacuoles from 1x1 05 protoplasts yielded vacuoles at 10
to 20 %. The contamination of other organelles in purified vacuole was found a low
activity of the maker enzyme including catalase, NADH cytochrome C reductase,
NADH malate dehydrogenase and alcohol dehydrogenase. Whereas, the maker
enzymes of vacuole including acid phophatase and p-glucosidase had high activity.
This indicated that the purified vacuoles were good enough for further step of analysis.
In vitro test of vacuole and protoplasts extracted from Japanese bunching onion
containing the reaction mixture was incubated for 0, 3, 6, 18, 24 hr. The formation of
chlorophyllide a, pheophorbide a, pyropheophorboie a and C 132-hydroxychlorophyll a
in protoplasts was higher than that in the vacuoles whereas the vacuoles shown higher
formation of pheophytin a than that in the protoplasts. From the result of in vitro test
found that chlorophyll catabolite were also found in vacuole of Japanese bunching
onion. Therefore, in vivo test was initiated to study the changes of color, chlorophyll
contents and chlorophyll derivative contents in Japanese bunching onion during storage
at 4 C and 25 C. The hue angle level of Japanese bunching onion was declined during
storage at 25 C, whereas leaves storage at 4 C shown unchanged of the hue angle
level. The chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b contents of Japanese bunching onion were
decreased in leaves storage at 25 C faster than that of stored at 4 C. Chlorophyll
derivatives (chlorophyll ide a, pheophytin a, Cl32-hydroxychlorophyll a, pheophorbide
a and pyropheophorbide a) in vacuoles of bunching onion stored at 25 C increased on
day 1 while the vacuole of Japanese bunching onion storage at 4 C showed a slowly
increased of chlorophyll derivatives during storage. From the results, the accumulation
of chlorophyll catabolite was observed in vacuole of Japanese bunching onion during
storage. This indicated that the chlorophyll degradation may also occur in the vacuole
especially at high temperature, while the storage at 4 C retarded the chlorophyll
catabolism in Japanese bunching onion.
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Thesis Committee : Prof. Dr. Navadol Laosiripojana Asst. Prof. Dr. Nutthachai Pongprasert Prof. Dr. Suttichai Assabumrungrat Assoc. Prof. Dr. Varit Srilaong Prof. Dr. Ratana Jiraratananon