The effects of short term blue light treatment on promoting nutrition value in Chinese cabbage

Ruixing Zhang; Yulin Liu; Qiming Pan; Abid Khan; Xue Bai; Muhammad Ali; Wenjing Yang; Lugang Zhang; Baohua Li

doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2023.135542

The effects of short term blue light treatment on promoting nutrition value in Chinese cabbage

Food Chem. 2023 Jun 30:412:135542. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2023.135542. Epub 2023 Jan 21.

Authors

Ruixing Zhang¹, Yulin Liu², Qiming Pan³, Abid Khan⁴, Xue Bai⁵, Muhammad Ali⁶, Wenjing Yang⁷, Lugang Zhang⁸, Baohua Li⁹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100 Shaanxi, China. Electronic address: xingqing@nwafu.edu.cn.
² State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. Electronic address: liuyulin191@nwafu.edu.cn.
³ State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100 Shaanxi, China. Electronic address: 2020055340@nwsuaf.edu.cn.
⁴ Department of Horticulture, The University of Haripur, Haripur 22620, Pakistan. Electronic address: khanabid@uoh.edu.pk.
⁵ State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100 Shaanxi, China. Electronic address: xue.bai@nwafu.edu.cn.
⁶ National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. Electronic address: alinhorti@nwafu.edu.cn.
⁷ State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100 Shaanxi, China. Electronic address: yangwenjing@nwafu.edu.cn.
⁸ State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100 Shaanxi, China. Electronic address: lugangzh@nwafu.edu.cn.
⁹ State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100 Shaanxi, China. Electronic address: baohuali@nwafu.edu.cn.

PMID: 36706505
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2023.135542

Abstract

Chinese cabbage is a nutrients-rich vegetable with diverse leaf colors. Here, we used widely-targeted metabolomics technology to study the metabolic responses of three Chinese cabbage varieties with representative leaf colors after blue light treatment. The inner leaf color of orange varieties 20S530 and 15S1094 changed from yellow to golden yellow, while no visible color change occurred in the common variety 14S23 after the treatment. A total of 844 metabolites were measured from the leaf samples of these three varieties in a time course study after short term blue light treatment, with kaempferol-4'-O-glucoside, isoquercitrin, hyperin, arbutin, sulforaphane as enriched nutritional metabolites. Orange Chinese cabbage varieties showed additional nutrition enhancement after the treatment. This study is the first to explore the global metabolic responses of Chinese cabbage after blue light treatment, and our findings provided valuable insights on how to effectively use lighting conditions to enhance specific groups of nutrients in vegetables.

Keywords: Blue light; Chinese cabbage; Flavonoid; Glucosinolates; Phenolic acid; Widely targeted metabolomics analysis.

MeSH terms

Brassica* / metabolism
Light
Metabolomics
Nutritive Value
Vegetables