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标题：Comparative metabolomics reveals differences in primary and secondary metabolites between “Shixia” and “Chuliang” longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour.) pulp
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作者：Tingting Lai ; Liang Shuai ; Dongmei Han 等
期刊名称：Food Science & Nutrition
电子版ISSN：2048-7177
出版年度：2021
卷号：9
期号：10
页码：5785-5799
DOI：10.1002/fsn3.2552
语种：English
出版社：John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
摘要：Longan was a characteristic fruit for both medicine and food in China, which was rich in primary and secondary metabolites. Comprehensive high‐throughput identification and comparison of metabolites in longan pulp among different varieties were still lacked. “Shixia” (SX) and “Chuliang” (CL) were the biggest major cultivars of longan in China. In this study, the content of total soluble solid, total flavonoid, and total phenolics indicated the difference of sweetness and bioactive compound content between the SX and CL pulp. Through a widely targeted metabolome, a total of 514 metabolites were identified and categorized into 23 groups mainly including flavonoids, amino acids derivatives, lipids, phenolic acids, nucleotides derivatives, alkaloids, organic acids and sugars derivatives. A total of 89 metabolites with significantly differential accumulation (variable importance in projection (VIP) value ≧1, p‐value .05) over 1.2 fold were found between SX and CL, which were mainly enriched into pathways including flavone and flavonol biosynthesis, glycolysis/gluconeogenesis, and arginine and proline metabolism. Higher leveled hexose and hexose‐phosphate (i.e., β‐D‐glucose, D(+)‐glucose, glucose‐1‐phosphate and glucose‐6‐phosphate), dominant organic acids (i.e., citric acid, succinic acid, D‐malic acid, and citramalate), and essential amino acids (L‐threonine, L‐valine, L‐isoleucine, L‐leucine, L‐phenylalanine and L‐lysine) in SX pulp might be contributed to the taste and flavor difference between SX and CL. Moreover, the greatly differential accumulated secondary metabolites especially flavonoids and phenolic acids might result in different medicinal and nutritional characteristic between SX and CL. In conclusion, this study provided a systemic metabolic basis for understanding the nutritional differences between SX and CL and would help deepen the molecular biology and pharmacology research on characteristic metabolites in longan pulp.