Journal
FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 233, Issue -, Pages 321-330Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2017.04.079
Keywords
Tea; Metabolomics; Taste; EGCG; EGCG3 '' Me; NMR
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Recently, we selected three tea (Camellia sinensis) cultivars that are rich in taste, epigallocatechin-3-O-gallate (EGCG) and epigallocatechin-3-O-(3-O-methyl)gallate (EGCG3Me) and then cultivated them through asexual propagation by cutting in the same region. In the present study, proton nuclear magnetic resonance (H-1 NMR)-based metabolomics was applied to characterize the metabotype and to understand the metabolic mechanism of these tea cultivars including wild type tea. Of the tea leaf metabolite variations, reverse associations of amino acid metabolism with catechin compound metabolism were found in the rich-taste, and EGCG- and EGCG3Me-rich tea cultivars. Indeed, the metabolism of individual catechin compounds in the EGCG3Me-rich cultivar differed from those of other tea cultivars. The current study highlights the distinct metabolism of various tea cultivars newly selected for cultivation and the important role of metabolomics in understanding the metabolic mechanism. Thus, comprehensive metabotyping is a useful method to assess and then develop a new plant cultivar. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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