Journal
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 66, Issue 22, Pages 5481-5490Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.8b01038
Keywords
isothiocyanates; epithionitriles; nitriles; plant secondary metabolites; genotypic variation
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An in-depth glucosinolate (GLS) profiling was performed on a core collection of 91 Brassica rapa accessions, representing diverse morphotypes of heterogeneous geographical origin, to better understand the natural variation in GLS accumulation and GLS breakdown product formation. Leaves of the 91 B. rapa accessions were analyzed for their GLS composition by UHPLC-DAD and the corresponding breakdown products by GC-MS. Fifteen different GLSs were identified, and aliphatic GLSs prevailed regarding diversity and concentration. Twenty-three GLS breakdown products were identified, among them nine isothiocyanates, ten nitriles, and four epithionitriles. Epithionitriles were the prevailing breakdown products due to the high abundance of alkenyl GLSs. The large scale data set allowed the identification of correlations in abundance of specific GLSs or of GLS breakdown products. Discriminant function analysis identified subspecies with high levels of similarity in the acquired metabolite profiles. In general, the five main subspecies grouped significantly in terms of their GLS profiles.
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