Chemical attributes in coffee species / Atributos químicos de espécies de café

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

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The objective of this work was to characterize seven coffee species and varieties from C. canephora and C. liberica presents in Germplasm Bank of the Instituto Agronômico in order to determine the possibility of its grouping as well its use on breeding of C. arabica and C. canephora species. A total of a hundred ten plants belonging to seven species and thirteen varieties were analysed for some chemical components of seeds (soluble solids, lipids, trigonelline, chlorogenic acids and caffeine). The results evidenced the existence of great variation among and within the materials analyzed, with values ranging from 24,12% to 31,00% for soluble solids; 6,61% to 17,49% for lipids; 0,32% to 2,15% for trigonelline; 2,58% to 6,38% for chlorogenic acids and 0,80% to 3,29% for caffeine, indicating that these variables can be used in selection of plants for the improvement of C. arabica and C. canephora. The results also showed that (i) soluble solids, lipids, chlorogenic acids and caffeine allowed to group C. canephora varieties, (ii) soluble solids, lipids and trigonelline permited discriminate C. liberica varieties.and (iii) lipids, chlorogenic acids, trigonelline and caffeine allowed to group coffee species. The C. canephora varieties did not show differences in relation to trigonelline while C. liberica varieties did not varied in relation to caffeine and chlorogenic acids. The hole group of obtained data for chemical variables analysed show that there is the possibility that Uganda and Bangelan varieties been hybrids between C. congensis and C. canephora.

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grouping coffea specie chemical compounds composição química variedades vegetais café

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