HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2026, Vol. 65 ›› Issue (6): 128-132.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2026.06.021

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Relationship between leaf flavonoid content and soil nutrient stoichiometry across different ages of leaf-used Ginkgo biloba L.

DUAN Yuan-yuan1,2, WANG Fan-fan1, TANG Tao1, GUO Jie1,2, WANG Xiao-yue1, ZHOU Wu-xian1, YOU Jing-mao1   

  1. 1. Institute of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Cultivation of Chinese Medicinal Materials, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Hubei Standardized Production of Traditional Chinese Medicine (GAP) Engineering Research Center/Enshi Selenium-rich Resource Observation and Research Station, Enshi 445000,Hubei, China;
    2. Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Hubei Provincial Engineering Research Center of Under-forest Economy, Wuhan 430064, China
  • Received:2026-02-05 Online:2026-06-25 Published:2026-06-26

Abstract: Leaf-used Ginkgo biloba L. across different growth ages in Enshi, Hubei Province was used as the research material. One-way analysis of variance was performed to examine variations in leaf flavonoid contents, and redundancy analysis (RDA) was conducted to determine the dominant soil nutrient drivers of flavonoid accumulation. The results showed that the contents of quercetin, kaempferol, isorhamnetin and total flavonol glycosides in Ginkgo biloba leaves across different growth years ranged from 0.21% to 0.33%, 0.22% to 0.33%, 0.020% to 0.033% and 1.15% to 1.59%, respectively. Four-year-old Ginkgo biloba trees exhibited the highest soil nutrient contents. The stoichiometric ratios of C∶N, C∶P, and N∶P in soils under different ages of Ginkgo biloba ranged from 6.99 to 8.30, 13.24 to 29.60, and 1.67 to 3.57, respectively. RDA indicated that soil total nitrogen and organic matter were the dominant factors affecting flavonoid contents. The growth of Ginkgo biloba was limited by nitrogen availability, and appropriate nitrogen fertilizer should be applied in artificial cultivation.

Key words: flavonoid content, leaf-used Ginkgo biloba L., soil nutrients, ecological stoichiometric characteristics

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