Metabolomics Analyses of Cotyledon and Plumule Showing the Potential Domestic Selection in Lotus Breeding
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results
2.1. Metabolite Profiling of Dry Lotus Seeds
2.2. Metabolites Clustering
2.3. Differentially Accumulated Metabolites in Two Varieties
2.4. Functional Annotation and Enrichment Analysis of DAMs
3. Discussion
3.1. Abundant Metabolites Accumulated in the Dry Lotus Seed
3.2. The Potential Nutritional and Medicinal Value of Lotus Dry Seed
3.3. The Effects of Phenotypic Selection on Metabolites Changes and Metabolomics-Assisted Breeding
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Plant Samples
4.2. Metabolites Extraction
4.3. Metabolites IdentificationD
4.4. Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Metabolites
4.5. Statistical Analysis
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Category | CACL vs. JXCL | CALP vs. JXLP | CACL vs. CALP | JXCL vs. JXLP | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Up | Down | Up | Down | Up | Down | Up | Down | |
Amino acid and derivatives | 3 | 23 | 3 | 14 | 22 | 11 | 24 | 13 |
Phenolic acids | 7 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 5 | 31 | 4 |
Nucleotides and derivatives | 1 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 1 | 13 | 2 |
flavonoids | 11 | 17 | 1 | 35 | 103 | 5 | 98 | 7 |
Quinones | 1 | 0 | / | / | / | / | 3 | 1 |
Lignans and coumarins | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Others | 4 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 8 |
Tannins | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Alkaloids | 3 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 4 | 23 | 3 |
Terpenoids | / | / | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Organic acids | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 4 |
Lipids | 0 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
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Qi, H.; Yu, F.; Damaris, R.N.; Yang, P. Metabolomics Analyses of Cotyledon and Plumule Showing the Potential Domestic Selection in Lotus Breeding. Molecules 2021, 26, 913. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26040913
Qi H, Yu F, Damaris RN, Yang P. Metabolomics Analyses of Cotyledon and Plumule Showing the Potential Domestic Selection in Lotus Breeding. Molecules. 2021; 26(4):913. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26040913
Chicago/Turabian StyleQi, Huanhuan, Feng Yu, Rebecca Njeri Damaris, and Pingfang Yang. 2021. "Metabolomics Analyses of Cotyledon and Plumule Showing the Potential Domestic Selection in Lotus Breeding" Molecules 26, no. 4: 913. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26040913