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Exploring the medicinally important secondary metabolites landscape through the lens of transcriptome data in fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.)

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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-17779-8

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  1. Department of Biotechnology, Government of India [BT/PR10550/BID/7/479/2013]
  2. Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India [SB/S2/JC-071/2015]
  3. Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology [IBAB/MSCB/182/2022]
  4. Department of Biotechnology, India [BT/PR40187/BTIS/137/9/2021]
  5. NCBS (TIFR)

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Fenugreek, a self-pollinated leguminous crop, has a wide range of uses as herb, spice, vegetable, and forage. Its secondary metabolites with medicinal value are highly expressed in leaves, stem, and roots, which is of significance to both nutrition and pharmaceutical industry.
Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) is a self-pollinated leguminous crop belonging to the Fabaceae family. It is a multipurpose crop used as herb, spice, vegetable and forage. It is a traditional medicinal plant in India attributed with several nutritional and medicinal properties including antidiabetic and anticancer. We have performed a combined transcriptome assembly from RNA sequencing data derived from leaf, stem and root tissues. Around 209,831 transcripts were deciphered from the assembly of 92% completeness and an N50 of 1382 bases. Whilst secondary metabolites of medicinal value, such as trigonelline, diosgenin, 4-hydroxyisoleucine and quercetin, are distributed in several tissues, we report transcripts that bear sequence signatures of enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of such metabolites and are highly expressed in leaves, stem and roots. One of the antidiabetic alkaloid, trigonelline and its biosynthesising enzyme, is highly abundant in leaves. These findings are of value to nutritional and the pharmaceutical industry.

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