Differences in Important Chemical Components and Free Radical Scavenging Activities of the Ginger Germplasm Resources from Fujian

Authors

• Meichun CHEN, Fujian Provincial Engineering Research Center for Agricultural Biopharmaceuticals , Institute of Resources , Environment and Soil Fertilizer , Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences , Fuzhou 350003 , China
• Enquan LIN, Fujian Provincial Engineering Research Center for Agricultural Biopharmaceuticals , Institute of Resources , Environment and Soil Fertilizer , Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences , Fuzhou 350003 , China
• Xuefang ZHENG, Fujian Provincial Engineering Research Center for Agricultural Biopharmaceuticals , Institute of Resources , Environment and Soil Fertilizer , Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences , Fuzhou 350003 , China
• Zuliang LI, Institute of Crop Sciences , Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences , Fuzhou 350003 , China
• Bo LIU, Fujian Provincial Engineering Research Center for Agricultural Biopharmaceuticals , Institute of Resources , Environment and Soil Fertilizer , Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences , Fuzhou 350003 , China
• Jieping WANG, Fujian Provincial Engineering Research Center for Agricultural Biopharmaceuticals , Institute of Resources , Environment and Soil Fertilizer , Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences , Fuzhou 350003 , ChinaFollow

Corresponding Author(s)

王阶平（1972—），男，博士，研究员，博士研究生导师，主要从事生物资源研究。E-mail：wangjpfaas@foxmail.com

Abstract

[Objective ] This study aims to analyze the important chemical components of different ginger germplasm resources from Fujian and evaluate their comprehensive quality and free radical scavenging activities.[Method ] Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS ) and liquid chromatography-quadrupole-time of flight-mass spectrometry (LC-QTOF-MS ) were employed to determine the importance chemical components in 13 ginger germplasm resources.Differences in the chemical compounds were analyzed by the cluster analysis and principal component analysis (PCA ).The free radical scavenging activities of the ginger germplasm resources against ABTS+ were further evaluated.[Result ] A total of 65 chemical compounds were identified from the 13 ginger germplasm resources,including 44 volatile compounds and 21 non-volatile compounds.Among them,one gingerol and 2 dihydrocurcumin derivatives were the newly detected compounds in ginger.The highest total peak areas of volatile compounds and non-volatile compounds were detected in ginger germplasm resources J 9 and J10,respectively.According to the results of cluster analysis,the 13 ginger germplasm resources were clustered into 3 groups:Group I including J 9 and J 8,Group II including J 2,J5,J4,J1,J7,and J 3,and Group Ⅲ including the remaining 5 resources.PCA identified 29 differential representative components including eucalyptol,neral,citral,zingiberene,α-curcumene,β-bisabolene,β-sesquiphellandrene,and 1-dehydro- 6-gingerdione.Regarding the comprehensive score of ginger quality,the top 2 ginger germplasm resources were J 9 and J 8.The ginger germplasm resources exhibited the ABTS+ free radical scavenging activities with the IC 50 values in the range of 69.00~172.33 µg/mL,and the ginger germplasm resource J 3 displayed the strongest ABTS+ free radical scavenging activity.The correlation analysis showed that gingerols made greater contributions to the ABTS+ free radical scavenging activity than diarylheptanoids.[Conclusion ] This study can screen out the elite ginger germplasm resources suitable for different processing products of ginger and provide data support for the deep processing industry of ginger.

Publication Date

1-15-2026

First Page

52

Last Page

63

DOI

10.12441/spyswjs.20240925002

Recommended Citation

CHEN, Meichun; LIN, Enquan; ZHENG, Xuefang; LI, Zuliang; LIU, Bo; and WANG, Jieping (2026) "Differences in Important Chemical Components and Free Radical Scavenging Activities of the Ginger Germplasm Resources from Fujian," Journal of Food Science and Biotechnology: Vol. 45: Iss. 1, Article 6.
DOI: 10.12441/spyswjs.20240925002
Available at: https://spsw.spyswjs.cnjournals.com/journal/vol45/iss1/6

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