Antioxidant capacity and polyphenolic content of potato tubers are affected by cultivar and hormetic treatment
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis involved an investigation of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tuber antioxidant capacity, particularly the phytonutrients vitamin C and polyphenolics. Tubers of 12 Canadian-grown and 5 foreign cultivars were screened for antioxidants qualitatively and quantitatively following 1 and 7 months of storage (5±1 oC). Significant differences were seen in quality and quantity of tuber antioxidants (including vitamin C and polyphenolics) between cultivars, storage intervals, and tuber tissues (skin, cortex, and pith). A potato microtuber model system was developed to test the effects of hormesis on microtuber antioxidant capacity. Hydrogen peroxide sprays (2 and 4 mM) increased the antioxidant capacity of microtubers in 2 cultivars by 12-26 %, showing the potato microtuber model system to be sensitive and useful for manipulating phytonutrient composition via hormetic treatments. Information in this thesis may have future applications for better cultivar selection and cultivation practices for improved phytonutrient content of field-grown potato tubers.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".