Boosting NADPH with GABA: Converting aged seeds to functional soybean sprouts
Song Yu, Jiaqi Yin, Fandi Meng, Kaiqiao Hua, Keyi Zhao, Fengming Li, Tong Zhao, Yingjie Wang, Yifei Zhang, Chunyu Zhang, Lihe Yu · 2026
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Description
Song Yu and co-authors revive old soybean seeds with a natural signal chemical in a 2026 study of sprout quality. Stored seeds age and sprout poorly, which cuts both crop yield and the food value of sprouts. Doses of the signal chemical, found in many plants, were tested on aged seeds with and without a blocker of a key energy path.
Treated seeds sprouted far more often than untreated aged seeds, rising from about a third to near three quarters in the counts reported. A fuel making enzyme more than doubled its activity, and shield levels against cell stress climbed back near fresh seed levels. Chemical scans of thousands of compounds showed the energy path and prized plant compounds switched on. Blocker tests proved the path was required.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Song Yu, Jiaqi Yin, Fandi Meng, Kaiqiao Hua, Keyi Zhao, Fengming Li, Tong Zhao, Yingjie Wang, Yifei Zhang, Chunyu Zhang, Lihe Yu |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 67532 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |