Peach fruit: metabolic comparative analysis of two varieties with different resistances to insect attacks by NMR spectroscopy

J Agric Food Chem. 2013 Feb 27;61(8):1718-26. doi: 10.1021/jf303248z. Epub 2012 Nov 8.

Abstract

The metabolite profile of aqueous extracts of two peach varieties, Percoca Romagnola 7 and Flaminia, with different susceptibilities to Ceratitis capitata attack was investigated by means of 1D and 2D high-field NMR spectroscopy. Water-soluble metabolites belonging to different classes such as organic acids (citric, fumaric, malic, quinic, shikimic, and succinic acids), sugars (fucose, fructose, fructose-6-phosphate, glucose, glucose-6-phosphate, rhamnose, sucrose, and xylose), amino acids (alanine, asparagine, isoleucine, threonine, and valine) and other metabolites such as myo-inositol, choline, trigonelline, catechin, chlorogenic and neochlorogenic acids, orthophosphate, and α-l-glycerophosphorylcholine were identified. The metabolite profile together with a suitable statistical analysis was used to make a comparison between the two varieties. The levels of glucose, xylose, myo-inositol, choline, isoleucine, and valine were found to be higher in Flaminia than in Percoca Romagnola 7 samples, whereas the levels of fumaric acid, alanine, quinic acid, sucrose, fucose, and chlorogenic and neochlorogenic acid were found to be higher in Percoca Romagnola 7 than in Flaminia samples.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Fruit / chemistry
  • Fruit / metabolism
  • Fruit / parasitology*
  • Insecta / physiology*
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / methods*
  • Metabolomics / methods*
  • Plant Extracts / analysis*
  • Plant Extracts / metabolism
  • Prunus / chemistry*
  • Prunus / metabolism
  • Prunus / parasitology*

Substances

  • Plant Extracts