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Fruit quality of Japanese, Kuril and Russian blue honeysuckle (Lonicera caerulea L.) germplasm compared to blueberry, raspberry and strawberry

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Blue honeysuckle (Lonicera caerulea L.) is a novel, niche-market fruit because of its tart flavours, unique aroma profiles and abundant antioxidants. Commercial crop development requires improved biochemical traits to promote wide-spread market acceptance. Key foundation germplasm groups from Russia, Japan and the Kuril Islands were compared with three mainstream fruit crops (highbush blueberry, red raspberry and June-bearing strawberry) to characterize selected biochemical traits, including total soluble solids (TSS) and titratable acidity (TA), in a temperate climate over two years (2012, 2013) in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Biochemical diversity associated with commercially-desirable fruit quality varied across foundation groups, providing genetic resources required to improve several fruit quality traits. There was greater variability in dry matter and TSS:TA in the Russian and Japanese groups, respectively, and these groups had similar diversity in TSS, TA and pH. Blue honeysuckle possessed important variability in TSS:TA, meaning that overly tart fruit tastes are not an absolute limitation to wide-spread consumption. The Japanese group had low TSS:TA despite high TSS, and the Russian group had high TSS:TA despite low TSS. Diversity in TSS:TA is more directly related to differences in TA than TSS. Reducing TA will effectively improve TSS:TA, contributing to desirable fruit quality and market acceptance.

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Abbreviations

BC:

British Columbia

CAE:

Citric acid equivalents

DM:

Dry matter

FQ:

Fruit quality

SK:

Saskatchewan

TA:

Titratable acidity

TSS:

Total soluble solids

U of S:

University of Saskatchewan

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank Tom Baumann, Alf Krause and Travis Hopcott for providing land for field trial sites and for their technical assistance; Prof. Paul Brown and Sebastian Temple at Trinity Western University (TWU) and the technicians at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) for their assistance with processing fruit samples; Maxine Thompson (Oregon State University), Maria Plekhanova (Vavilov Institute) and Jim Gilbert (One Green World Nursery) for providing the foundation blue honeysuckle germplasm used in this study.

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This work was supported by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate and Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (EMG) and the Robert P. Knowles Plant Breeding Scholarship (EMG).

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  1. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5A8, Canada

    Eric M. Gerbrandt, Robert H. Bors & Ravindra N. Chibbar

  2. Biology Department, University of the Fraser Valley, 33844 King Road, Abbotsford, BC, V2S 7M8, Canada

    Desneige Meyer & Ron Wilen

  3. The Centre for Global Public Health, University of Manitoba, 771 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 0T6, Canada

    Desneige Meyer

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Gerbrandt, E.M., Bors, R.H., Meyer, D. et al. Fruit quality of Japanese, Kuril and Russian blue honeysuckle (Lonicera caerulea L.) germplasm compared to blueberry, raspberry and strawberry. Euphytica 216, 59 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-020-02587-w

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