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Metabolomic Profiling of the White, Violet, and Red Flowers of Rhododendron schlippenbachii Maxim.

ABSTRACT: Rhododendron schlippenbachii Maxim. is a garden plant that is also used for natural medicines as a consequence of the biological activities of its diverse metabolites. We accordingly profiled two anthocyanins and 40 primary and secondary metabolites in the three different colored flowers. The major anthocyanins found in the flowers were cyanidins. The red flowers exhibited the highest accumulation of anthocyanins (1.02 ± 0.02 mg/g dry weight). Principal component analysis was applied to the GC?TOFMS data. The levels of key tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediates in red flowers, such as succinic acid, fumaric acid, and malic acid, were found to be highly significantly different (p < 0.0001) from those in the flowers of other colors. In this study, we aimed to determine metabolite interactions and phenotypic variation among white, violet, and red flowers of R. schlippenbachii by using gas chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC?TOFMS) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).

SUBMITTER: Park CH

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6017568 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Metabolomic Profiling of the White, Violet, and Red Flowers of <i>Rhododendron schlippenbachii</i> Maxim.

Park Chang Ha CH Yeo Hyeon Ji HJ Kim Nam Su NS Park Ye Eun YE Park Soo-Yun SY Kim Jae Kwang JK Park Sang Un SU

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20180404 4

<i>Rhododendron schlippenbachii</i> Maxim. is a garden plant that is also used for natural medicines as a consequence of the biological activities of its diverse metabolites. We accordingly profiled two anthocyanins and 40 primary and secondary metabolites in the three different colored flowers. The major anthocyanins found in the flowers were cyanidins. The red flowers exhibited the highest accumulation of anthocyanins (1.02 ± 0.02 mg/g dry weight). Principal component analysis was applied to t ...[more]

PMID: 29617312

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