Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2023, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (8): 1834-1843.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.20221267

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Analysis of relationship between number of Ricanidae in tea plantations and biochemical substances in tea leaves

XU Yuea(), WU Xiaomengb, WANG Guoqingb, ZOU Yundingb, BI Shoudona,*()   

  1. a. School of Science; b. School of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China
  • Received:2022-08-31 Online:2023-08-25 Published:2023-08-29

Abstract:

To clarify the correlation between the population size of Ricanidae and the content of biochemical substances in tea leaves, to provide the scientific basis for biological control and insect resistance breeding. Contents of 6 types of ionic compounds including sugars, amino acids, catechins, oligomeric proanthocyanidins, phenolic acids and flavonol glycosides in tea leaves were detected by high performance liquid chromatography with evaporative light scattering detector (HPLC-ELSD). The relationship between the number of Ricanidae and 6 types of biochemical substances was studied by using correlation analysis, gray correlation analysis, path analysis and regression analysis, and the closeness of the relationship between the content of different biochemical substances and the number of Ricanidae was obtained. From the correlation coefficients, the strongly correlated components of the 47 ionic compounds with the number of Ricanidae were: aspartic acid (-0.656 3), citrulline (-0.697 9), abscisic acid (0.694 1), ornithine (-0.728 3), 3-caffeoylquinic acid (0.654 8), and flavonol glycoside K3 (0.741 4). The relationship between the total content of 6 major ionic compounds and the number of Ricanidae was as follows: phenolic acids and flavonol glycosides were significantly correlated with the number of Ricanidae. The top 3 ionic components that were closely related to the number of Ricanidae from the gray correlation were: 3-caffeoylquinic acid (0.849 7), flavonol glycoside K3 (0.821 1), and ornithine amino acids (0.756 2). From the path coefficients and regression analysis, it was concluded that phenolic acids and flavonol glycosides were the 2 biochemicals with the most significant correlation with the number of Ricanidae. Ionic components closely related to the number of Ricanidae were: 3-caffeoylquinic acid, flavonol glycoside K3 and ornithine amino acids. Phenolic acids and flavonol glycosides were two types of biochemical substances closely related to the number of Ricanidae. The results could provide references for breeding tea trees against Ricanidae.

Key words: Ricanidae, tea, biochemical substance, correlation coefficient, gray correlation, path coefficient, regression analysis

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