Integrated Transcriptome and Metabolome Analysis Reveals Mechanism of Flavonoid Synthesis During Low-Temperature Storage of Sweet Corn Kernels
Jingyan Liu, Yingni Xiao, Xu Zhao, Jin Du, Jianguang Hu, Weiwei Jin, Gaoke Li, Oscar Núñez · 2024
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Jingyan Liu and co-authors studied what cold storage does inside sweet corn kernels in a 2024 paper. Sweet corn spoils fast after harvest, and chilling is the main defense, yet the molecular side of that defense was murky. Kernels were stored warm or cold for one, three, and five days, then checked for enzyme activity and gene changes.
Cold storage raised two protective enzyme activities. Across all time points, nearly two thousand genes changed in the cold, and many sat in the pathway that builds flavonoids, plant compounds prized for health value. Eleven pathway genes shifted steadily, and three regulator genes tracked the pattern closely. The study explains part of how chilling protects quality and names targets for breeding corn that stores better.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jingyan Liu, Yingni Xiao, Xu Zhao, Jin Du, Jianguang Hu, Weiwei Jin, Gaoke Li, Oscar Núñez |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |