Gavilán-CuiCui, G.; Padilla-Contreras, D.; Manterola-Barroso, C.; Morina, F.; Meriño-Gergichevich, C. Antioxidant Performance in the Shell Is Substantially Modified by Season and Locality in Hazelnut Cultivars. Agronomy2024, 14, 1412.
Gavilán-CuiCui, G.; Padilla-Contreras, D.; Manterola-Barroso, C.; Morina, F.; Meriño-Gergichevich, C. Antioxidant Performance in the Shell Is Substantially Modified by Season and Locality in Hazelnut Cultivars. Agronomy 2024, 14, 1412.
Gavilán-CuiCui, G.; Padilla-Contreras, D.; Manterola-Barroso, C.; Morina, F.; Meriño-Gergichevich, C. Antioxidant Performance in the Shell Is Substantially Modified by Season and Locality in Hazelnut Cultivars. Agronomy2024, 14, 1412.
Gavilán-CuiCui, G.; Padilla-Contreras, D.; Manterola-Barroso, C.; Morina, F.; Meriño-Gergichevich, C. Antioxidant Performance in the Shell Is Substantially Modified by Season and Locality in Hazelnut Cultivars. Agronomy 2024, 14, 1412.
Abstract
Hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) is of great agroeconomic importance, prized for its nutritional value and antioxidant properties. Its yield and quality may differ due to factors such as season (S), locality (L) and cultivar (C). Our objective was to determine the dynamics of morphological features and antioxidant properties in nuts of Barcelona and Tonda di Giffoni (TDG) cultivars planted at two localities (Cunco and Perquenco) during three productive seasons (S1, S2 and S3). Barcelona grown in Perquenco in S1 and S3 (less precipitation, more solar radiation), performed better than in Cunco with respect to most morphological nut, kernel and shell features, and the same parameters generally had the same trends for TDG in S2 and S3. Among the seasons at the same localities, the differences between the predominant condition defects for both cultivars were in the decreasing order wrinkled/deformed kernels, double kernels, blank and mold ker-nels, with about 75% of hazelnuts without defect. In both cultivars, the shell had higher antioxi-dant properties that increased in S1 and S3 at both localities, and were consistently higher than in the kernels. Lipid peroxidation was higher in the kernel than shell in both cultivars and local-ities for S1 and S3. The results of this study suggest that the different hazelnut cultivar features including physical and chemical components depend on season and locality, which offers im-portant clues for all those interested in the hazelnut industry.
Biology and Life Sciences, Agricultural Science and Agronomy
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