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Changes in Metabolome and Nutritional Quality of Lycium barbarum Fruits from Three Typical Growing Areas of China as Revealed by Widely Targeted Metabolomics

This study aimed at assessing the climatic factors influencing the wolfberry fruit morphology, and the composition of its nutritious metabolites. The cultivar Ningqi1, widely grown in Northwest China was collected from three typical ecological growing counties with contrasting climatic conditions: N...

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Autores principales: Wang, Yajun, Liang, Xiaojie, Li, Yuekun, Fan, Yunfang, Li, Yanlong, Cao, Youlong, An, Wei, Shi, Zhigang, Zhao, Jianhua, Guo, Sujuan
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7073637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31991919
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/metabo10020046
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author Wang, Yajun
Liang, Xiaojie
Li, Yuekun
Fan, Yunfang
Li, Yanlong
Cao, Youlong
An, Wei
Shi, Zhigang
Zhao, Jianhua
Guo, Sujuan
author_facet Wang, Yajun
Liang, Xiaojie
Li, Yuekun
Fan, Yunfang
Li, Yanlong
Cao, Youlong
An, Wei
Shi, Zhigang
Zhao, Jianhua
Guo, Sujuan
author_sort Wang, Yajun
collection PubMed
description This study aimed at assessing the climatic factors influencing the wolfberry fruit morphology, and the composition of its nutritious metabolites. The cultivar Ningqi1, widely grown in Northwest China was collected from three typical ecological growing counties with contrasting climatic conditions: Ningxia Zhongning (NF), Xinjiang Jinghe (XF) and Qinghai Nomuhong (QF). During the ripening period, 45 fruits from different plantations at each location were sampled. A total of 393 metabolites were detected in all samples through the widely targeted metabolomics approach and grouped into 19 known classes. Fruits from QF were the biggest followed by those from XF and NF. The altitude, relative humidity and light intensity had negative and strong correlations with most of the metabolites, suggesting that growing wolfberry in very high altitudes and under high light intensity is detrimental for the fruit nutritional quality. Soil moisture content is highly and negatively correlated with vitamins, organic acids and carbohydrates while moderately and positively correlated with other classes of metabolites. In contrast, air and soil temperatures exhibited positive correlation with majority of the metabolites. Overall, our results suggest high soil and air temperatures, low altitude and light intensity and moderate soil moisture, as the suitable conditions to produce Lycium fruits with high content of nutritious metabolites.
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spelling pubmed-70736372020-03-19 Changes in Metabolome and Nutritional Quality of Lycium barbarum Fruits from Three Typical Growing Areas of China as Revealed by Widely Targeted Metabolomics Wang, Yajun Liang, Xiaojie Li, Yuekun Fan, Yunfang Li, Yanlong Cao, Youlong An, Wei Shi, Zhigang Zhao, Jianhua Guo, Sujuan Metabolites Article This study aimed at assessing the climatic factors influencing the wolfberry fruit morphology, and the composition of its nutritious metabolites. The cultivar Ningqi1, widely grown in Northwest China was collected from three typical ecological growing counties with contrasting climatic conditions: Ningxia Zhongning (NF), Xinjiang Jinghe (XF) and Qinghai Nomuhong (QF). During the ripening period, 45 fruits from different plantations at each location were sampled. A total of 393 metabolites were detected in all samples through the widely targeted metabolomics approach and grouped into 19 known classes. Fruits from QF were the biggest followed by those from XF and NF. The altitude, relative humidity and light intensity had negative and strong correlations with most of the metabolites, suggesting that growing wolfberry in very high altitudes and under high light intensity is detrimental for the fruit nutritional quality. Soil moisture content is highly and negatively correlated with vitamins, organic acids and carbohydrates while moderately and positively correlated with other classes of metabolites. In contrast, air and soil temperatures exhibited positive correlation with majority of the metabolites. Overall, our results suggest high soil and air temperatures, low altitude and light intensity and moderate soil moisture, as the suitable conditions to produce Lycium fruits with high content of nutritious metabolites. MDPI 2020-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7073637/ /pubmed/31991919 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/metabo10020046 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Wang, Yajun
Liang, Xiaojie
Li, Yuekun
Fan, Yunfang
Li, Yanlong
Cao, Youlong
An, Wei
Shi, Zhigang
Zhao, Jianhua
Guo, Sujuan
Changes in Metabolome and Nutritional Quality of Lycium barbarum Fruits from Three Typical Growing Areas of China as Revealed by Widely Targeted Metabolomics
title Changes in Metabolome and Nutritional Quality of Lycium barbarum Fruits from Three Typical Growing Areas of China as Revealed by Widely Targeted Metabolomics
title_full Changes in Metabolome and Nutritional Quality of Lycium barbarum Fruits from Three Typical Growing Areas of China as Revealed by Widely Targeted Metabolomics
title_fullStr Changes in Metabolome and Nutritional Quality of Lycium barbarum Fruits from Three Typical Growing Areas of China as Revealed by Widely Targeted Metabolomics
title_full_unstemmed Changes in Metabolome and Nutritional Quality of Lycium barbarum Fruits from Three Typical Growing Areas of China as Revealed by Widely Targeted Metabolomics
title_short Changes in Metabolome and Nutritional Quality of Lycium barbarum Fruits from Three Typical Growing Areas of China as Revealed by Widely Targeted Metabolomics
title_sort changes in metabolome and nutritional quality of lycium barbarum fruits from three typical growing areas of china as revealed by widely targeted metabolomics
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7073637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31991919
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/metabo10020046
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