Composition of phenolic compounds, cyanogenic glycosides, organic acids and sugars in fruits of black cherry (Prunus serotina Ehrh.)

Brozdowski, Jakub (author), Waliszewska, Bogusława (author), Loffler, Jakub (author), Hudina, Metka (author), Veberič, Robert (author), Mikulič Petkovšek, Maja (author)

The forest understory is rich in fruit-bearing trees and shrubs. They include both native species and invasive alien plant species (IAPS). One of the most spreading IAPS is black cherry (Prunus serotina E.). Problems with the invasiveness of P. serotina is well known in many European countries. However, there are very few studies related to this IAPS. This article aims to fill the gap in research on the bioactive compounds of black cherry fruits and thus to start a discussion on the potential use of this species on an industrial or semi-industrial scale, which may lead to the reduction of this species presence in forests. Fruits were collected in a forest of Northern Poland. Contents of sugars, phenolic compounds as well as cyanogenic glycosides were determined. Pphenolic compounds and cyanogenic glycoside were assayed using HPLC-DAD coupled with MS$^n$. Sugars and organic acids were determined with the use of HPLC-DAD. Fruits of P. serotina can be considered as rich in anthocyanins, even at a lower level of total phenolics than in their plantation-grown couterparts, fruits of black cherry are still a good source of dietary phenolics of natural, forest-grown origin. When stones are not crushed during processing the level of GCC is within a safe, admissible range.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Prunus serotina, HPLC-DAD-MS, phenolics, organic acids, sugars, cyanogenic glycosides, invasive alien plant species
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: 10 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 12, iss. 6, art. 762
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-135628
• UDC: 630*8
• ISSN on article: 1999-4907
• DOI: 10.3390/f12060762
• COBISS.SI-ID: 66993411
• Publication date in RUL: 22.03.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Forests
• Shortened title: Forests
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 1999-4907
• COBISS.SI-ID: 3872166

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 10.06.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Prunus serotina, pozna čremsa, kemična sestava, bioaktivne sestavine, fenoli, organske kisline, cianogeni glikozidi, invazivne tujerodne rastline

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P4-0013
• Name: Hortikultura

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: Erasmus+ scholarship