Identifying putative key metabolites from fingerprinting metabolomics for the authentication of rice origin: A case study of Sengcu rice
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ABSTRACT: The expanding scale and nature of rice fraud in the global food system has caused major economic and human health concerns. Herein, an untargeted metabolomics approach based on the UHPLC-Q-Orbitrap-HRMS system was utilized for the discrimination between authentic and commercial Sengcu rice, a local specialty cultivated by terraced farming in northern Vietnam. A total of 8398 positive and 5250 negative mode compounds were introduced to multivariate statistical analyses for the construction of classification models. The first two principal components explaining 52% of the total variance in both datasets exhibited distinguished clusters of authentic against commercial Sengcu rice. Partial least squares-discriminant analysis models were optimized to obtain the optimal number of retained components, the optimal number of variables retained in each component and the best prediction distance type for model evaluation. One component containing five positive (DMG, RSA, RCA, PAL and BOSe) and six negative mode variables (PXP, RXP, TDHP, ISS, MXP and RGB) was sufficient to discriminate between authentic and commercial Sengcu rice. The classification error rate was less than 1.1310-4, as determined from repeated k-fold cross validation. These putative signature metabolites clearly separated authentic and commercial Sengcu rice in the hierarchical clustering models. In addition, the isolated metabolites also reflected the cultivation practices of terraced farming of authentic Sengcu rice. Overall, we have proposed an effective method for the identification of key metabolites from fingerprinting metabolomics, and it could serve as a fundamental approach for other in-depth food authentication studies.
ORGANISM(S): Oryza Sativa Rice
TISSUE(S): Seeds
SUBMITTER: Yen Hai Dao
PROVIDER: ST002169 | MetabolomicsWorkbench | Sun May 08 00:00:00 BST 2022
REPOSITORIES: MetabolomicsWorkbench
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