A catalog of natural products occurring in watermelon— Citrullus lanatus

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1205117067
ORCID
0000-0001-9359-7149
Affiliation
Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich-Schiller University
Sorokina, Maria;
Affiliation
Universität Konstanz
McCaffrey, Kira S.;
Affiliation
Department of Horticulture, Plants for Human Health Institute, North Carolina State University
Deaton, Erin E.;
Affiliation
Department of Horticulture, Plants for Human Health Institute, North Carolina State University
Ma, Guoying;
Affiliation
Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Jean Mayer-United States Department of Agriculture (JM-USDA) Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University
Ordovás, José M.;
Affiliation
Department of Horticulture, Plants for Human Health Institute, North Carolina State University
Perkins-Veazie, Penelope M.;
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128763922
ORCID
0000-0001-6966-0814
Affiliation
Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich-Schiller University
Steinbeck, Christoph;
Affiliation
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Vegetable Laboratory
Levi, Amnon;
Affiliation
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service, Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Jean Mayer-United States Department of Agriculture (JM-USDA) Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University
Parnell, Laurence D.

Sweet dessert watermelon ( Citrullus lanatus ) is one of the most important vegetable crops consumed throughout the world. The chemical composition of watermelon provides both high nutritional value and various health benefits. The present manuscript introduces a catalog of 1,679 small molecules occurring in the watermelon and their cheminformatics analysis for diverse features. In this catalog, the phytochemicals are associated with the literature describing their presence in the watermelon plant, and when possible, concentration values in various plant parts (flesh, seeds, leaves, roots, rind). Also cataloged are the chemical classes, molecular weight and formula, chemical structure, and certain physical and chemical properties for each phytochemical. In our view, knowing precisely what is in what we eat, as this catalog does for watermelon, supports both the rationale for certain controlled feeding studies in the field of precision nutrition, and plant breeding efforts for the development of new varieties with enhanced concentrations of specific phytochemicals. Additionally, improved and comprehensive collections of natural products accessible to the public will be especially useful to researchers in nutrition, cheminformatics, bioinformatics, and drug development, among other disciplines.

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License Holder: Copyright © 2021 Sorokina, McCaffrey, Deaton, Ma, Ordovás, Perkins-Veazie, Steinbeck, Levi and Parnell.

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This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.