JIANFEI GAO¹, KANGNING XIONG^2,*, WEIJIE LI¹, WEI ZHOU³

BIOCELL, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 285-296, 2022, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2021.016253

Abstract Kadsura coccinea (Lem.) is a woody wine plant with a peculiar fruit enriched in important health-promoting compounds. The non-editable part of the fruit, i.e., the seed and peel, represents more than 60% of the fruit and is considered a biowaste. This significantly restricts the development of the K. coccinea fruit industry. Clarifying the metabolic components of the different fruit parts can help to improve the utilization rate and valorization of K. coccinea. Herein, we evaluated K. coccinea fruit peel, pulp, and seed using widely-targeted metabolomics and quantified a set of 736 bioactive compounds from 11 major metabolite classes. The most… More >

Guiming Deng^1,2,3, Ou Sheng^1,2,3, Fangcheng Bi^1,2,3, Chunyu Li^1,2,3, Tongxin Dou^1,2,3, Tao Dong^1,2,3, Qiaosong Yang^1,2,3, Huijun Gao^1,2,3, Jing Liu⁴, Xiaohong Zhong⁴, Miao Peng⁴, Ganjun Yi^1,2,3, Weidi He^1,2,3, Chunhua Hu^1,2,3,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.89, No.4, pp. 1101-1130, 2020, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2020.010970

Abstract Banana (Musa spp.) is an ancient and popular fruit plant with highly nutritious fruit. The pseudo-stem of banana represents on average 75% of the total dry mass but its valorization as a nutritional and industrial by-product is limited. Recent advances in metabolomics have paved the way to understand and evaluate the presence of diverse sets of metabolites in different plant parts. This study aimed at exploring the diversity of primary and secondary metabolites in the banana pseudo-stem. Hereby, we identified and quantified 373 metabolites from a diverse range of classes including, alkaloids, flavonoids, lipids, phenolic acids, amino acids and its… More >