Analysis on the Protein and Amino Acids Contents in Hickory(Carya cathayensis Sarg.)Kernel and Their Variations
- Received Date: 2006-01-06
Abstract: The study was carried out to test the variations of different regionas and individual trees in crude protein content and amino acid composition of hickory(Carya cathayensis) kernel based on 61 plus trees from 4 areas(Lin'an,Chun'an,Anji and Ningguo).The results showed that the crude protein content was 113.0 mg·g-1 with the variation coefficient of 9.73%;The variance analysis indicated that the variations between regions in crude protein contents were significant,and the broad-sense heritability(H2) was 0.342 9.The hickory kernel contained 17 kinds of amino acids,including seven kinds of essential amino acids,which took 33.07% of the total amino acid contents.The variation coefficients of total amino acids and seven essential amino acids contents were large,and that of methionine was the largest,reaching to 64.9%.These demonstrated that the selection of superior hickory strains was genetically possible.