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GNPS - Carbon sufficiency boosts phenylpropanoid biosynthesis early in peach fruit development priming superior fruit quality

ABSTRACT: Manipulating the crop load in peach trees determines carbon supply and optimum balance between fruit yield and quality potentials. The impact of carbon supply on peach fruit quality was assessed in three development stages (S2, S3, S4) on fruit of equal maturity from trees that were carbon (C) starved (unthinned) and sufficient (thinned). Previous studies determined that primary metabolites of peach fruit mesocarp are mainly linked with developmental processes, thus, the secondary metabolite profile was assessed using non-targeted liquid chromatography mass-spectrometry (LC-MS). Carbon sufficient (C-sufficient) fruit demonstrated superior quality attributes as compared to C-starved fruit. Early metabolic shifts in the secondary metabolome appear to prime quality at harvest. Enhanced C-availability facilitated the increased and consistent synthesis of flavonoids, like catechin, epicatechin and eriodyctiol, via the phenylpropanoid pathway, providing a link between the metabolome and fruit quality, and serving as signatures of C-sufficiency during peach fruit development.

INSTRUMENT(S): LC: Waters Acquity UPLC system, MS: Waters Xevo G2-XS Q-TOF-MS

ORGANISM(S): Prunus Persica (ncbitaxon:3760)

SUBMITTER: Ioannis Minas

PROVIDER: MSV000090517 | GNPS | Wed Oct 12 11:29:00 BST 2022

REPOSITORIES: GNPS

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