The invention provides a pepper
pungency degree
rapid detection method based on specific
parenchyma cell thickness and application, and belongs to the technical field of pepper quality detection. According to the method, the
pungency degree can be rapidly calculated by taking the radial thickness of the specific parenchymal cells on the inner side of the peel of the fresh red chili fruit as a morphological marker, measuring the thickness through sampling, vibration
slicing and
microscopic observation and substituting the thickness into a
linear regression equation y = 25.751 x-3078.4, x is the
cell thickness [mu] m, and y is a predicted Scovier index SHU. According to the method, the direct correlation between the
pungency degree of the pepper and the
cell morphology parameters is established for the first time, and the limitations of high cost, long period and sample damage of a traditional
high performance liquid chromatography method are broken through, and the
bottleneck of poor model universality of a near-
infrared analysis method is broken through. The method has the outstanding advantages of being non-destructive, high in efficiency, low in cost, high in precision and the like, is particularly suitable for large-scale rapid screening of
processing type pepper breeding populations, and remarkably accelerates the breeding process.