Total Soluble Solid Content and Nutritional Values of Sotol (Dasylirion leiophyllum) in the Chihuahuan Desert as Affected by Rainy Season and Topography
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Published:2024-08-02
Issue:8
Volume:10
Page:819
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ISSN:2311-7524
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Container-title:Horticulturae
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Horticulturae
Author:
Juárez-Morales Martín1, Martínez-Salvador Martín1ORCID, Chávez-Mendoza Celia2ORCID, Villarreal-Guerrero Federico1ORCID, Santellano-Estrada Eduardo1ORCID, Pinedo-Alvarez Alfredo1ORCID, Corrales-Lerma Raúl1ORCID, Hernández-Quiroz Nathalie S.1ORCID, Vázquez-Quintero Griselda3ORCID, Vega-Mares José H.1ORCID
Affiliation:
1. Facultad de Zootecnia y Ecología, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Perif. Fco. R. Almada km 1, Chihuahua 31453, Chihuahua, Mexico 2. Coordinación en Tecnología de Productos Hortofrutícolas y Lácteos, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A. C. Avenida Cuarta Sur No. 3820, Fraccionamiento Vencedores del Desierto, Delicias 33089, Chihuahua, Mexico 3. Facultad de Ciencias Agrotecnológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Av. Pascual Orozco s/n, Campus 1, Santo Niño, Chihuahua 31160, Chihuahua, Mexico
Abstract
Sotol (Dasylirion leiophyllum) grows in the Chihuahan Desert in the north of Mexico and south of the United States. The stem of this species is used to produce a liquor widely known as sotol. A field sampling and a laboratory analysis were carried out to determine the influence of the rainy season, altitude, topography, and aspect over the soluble solid content (°Brix) and bromatological variables of mature plants of sotol in Chihuahua, Mexico. Analyses of variance and Tukey tests were performed. The rainy season and altitude showed significant statistical influence (p ≤ 0.05) on the total soluble solids content; meanwhile, only altitude showed a significant effect on the bromatological variables (p ≤ 0.05). According to the results of the Tukey tests (p < 0.05), sotol plants have the highest concentrations of soluble solid contents before the rainy season (25 °Brix) and at sites with altitudes lower than 1300 m (25.95 °Brix). In addition, the means of raw protein and carbohydrates content were the highest in plants living at altitudes lower than 1500 m, at 1.93% and 31.74%, respectively. Meanwhile, topography, aspect, and the interactions of the evaluated factors did not show significant influence (p ≤ 0.05) over the total soluble solid content, nor over the bromatological variables studied.
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