Molecules, Vol. 24, Pages 1114: Metabolic Profiling of Pitaya (Hylocereus polyrhizus) during Fruit Development and Maturation

Molecules, Vol. 24, Pages 1114: Metabolic Profiling of Pitaya (Hylocereus polyrhizus) during Fruit Development and Maturation Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules24061114 Authors: Yawei Wu Juan Xu Yizhong He Meiyan Shi Xiumei Han Wenyun Li Xingwu Zhang Xiaopeng Wen Pitaya (Hylocereus polyrhizus) has attracted much interest from consumers as it is a novelty fruit with high nutrient content and a tolerance to drought stress. As a group of attractive pigment- and health-promoting natural compounds, betalains represent a visual feature for pitaya fruit quality. However, little information on the correlation between betalains and relevant metabolites exists so far. Currently, color (Commission International del’Eclairage, CIE) parameters, betalain contents, and untargeted metabolic profiling (gas chromatography-time-of-flight-mass spectrometry, GC–MS and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry, LC–MS) have been examined on ‘Zihonglong’ fruits at nine different developmental stages, and the variation character of the metabolite contents was simultaneously investigated between peel and pulp. Furthermore, principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least-squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) were used to explore metabolite profiles from the fruit samples. Our results demonstrated that the decrease of amino acid, accompanied by the increase of sugars and organic acid, might contribute to...
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