Cross-Species Comparison of Metabolomics to Decipher the Metabolic Diversity in Ten Fruits
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results
2.1. Metabolomics Analysis of Ten Fruits
2.2. Identification of Metabolic Signals
2.3. Metabolites’ Accumulation Pattern of Ten Different Fruits
2.4. Metabolic Profiling Analyses of Ten Different Fruits
2.5. Comparative Analysis of Accumulation Patterns of Secondary Metabolites in Ten Fruits
2.6. The Metabolome Has the Potential to Reflect the Evolutionary Relationships between Fruits
3. Discussion
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Plant Materials
4.2. Chemical Reagents
4.3. Metabolite Sample Preparation
4.4. Metabolite Profiling
4.5. Identification of Metabolites
4.6. Phylogenomic Analysis of the Ten Fruits
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Qi, J.; Li, K.; Shi, Y.; Li, Y.; Dong, L.; Liu, L.; Li, M.; Ren, H.; Liu, X.; Fang, C.; et al. Cross-Species Comparison of Metabolomics to Decipher the Metabolic Diversity in Ten Fruits. Metabolites 2021, 11, 164. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo11030164
Qi J, Li K, Shi Y, Li Y, Dong L, Liu L, Li M, Ren H, Liu X, Fang C, et al. Cross-Species Comparison of Metabolomics to Decipher the Metabolic Diversity in Ten Fruits. Metabolites. 2021; 11(3):164. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo11030164
Chicago/Turabian StyleQi, Jinwei, Kang Li, Yunxia Shi, Yufei Li, Long Dong, Ling Liu, Mingyang Li, Hui Ren, Xianqing Liu, Chuanying Fang, and et al. 2021. "Cross-Species Comparison of Metabolomics to Decipher the Metabolic Diversity in Ten Fruits" Metabolites 11, no. 3: 164. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo11030164