Dataset on the differential metabolite composition of ripe and green fruit coats of Solanum mauritianum

Description

Abraham Goodness Ogofure and Ezekiel Green present a 2026 data paper on the fruit coats of an invasive plant. The plant has a history in folk medicine, and ripe fruit parts showed promise against bacteria and cancer in a sister study. What changes as the fruit ripens was a gap. The team profiled green and ripe fruit coats with a high-grade mass spectrometry method.

Thirty-five plant compounds were tentatively named across both stages. Ripe coats held 17 compounds found nowhere else in the set. Green coats held seven unique ones, and 11 appeared in both. Full data include retention times, exact masses, and fragment patterns. The set maps how chemistry shifts as fruit matures. It can guide work on how the plant builds these compounds.

Catalog record

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13195779