Geographical variations in fatty acid and steroid saponin biosynthesis in Dioscorea zingiberensis rhizomes

2021 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 113779
Author(s):  
Lixiu Hou ◽  
Song Li ◽  
Ziyu Tong ◽  
Xincheng Yuan ◽  
Jiali Xu ◽  
...  
Foods ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1676
Author(s):  
Yao Ma ◽  
Jieyun Tian ◽  
Xiaona Wang ◽  
Chen Huang ◽  
Mingjing Tian ◽  
...  

Zanthoxylum plants, important aromatic plants, have attracted considerable attention in the food, pharmacological, and industrial fields because of their potential health benefits, and they are easily accessible because of the wild distribution in most parts of China. The chemical components vary with inter and intraspecific variations, ontogenic variations, and climate and soil conditions in compositions and contents. To classify the relationships between different Zanthoxylum species and to determine the key factors that influence geographical variations in the main components of the plant, the fatty acid composition and content of 72 pericarp samples from 12 cultivation regions were measured and evaluated. Four fatty acids, palmitic acid (21.33–125.03 mg/g), oleic acid (10.66–181.37 mg/g), linoleic acid (21.98–305.32 mg/g), and linolenic acid (0.06–218.84 mg/g), were the most common fatty acid components in the Zanthoxylum pericarps. Fatty acid profiling of Zanthoxylum pericarps was significantly affected by Zanthoxylum species and geographical variations. Stearic acid and oleic acid in pericarps were typical fatty acids that distinguished Zanthoxylum species based on the result of discriminant analysis (DA). Palmitic acid, palmitoleic acid, trans-13-oleic acid, and linoleic acid were important differential indicators in distinguishing given Zanthoxylum pericarps based on the result of orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA). In different Zanthoxylum species, the geographical influence on fatty acid variations was diverse. This study provides information on how to classify the Zanthoxylum species based on pericarp fatty acid compositions and determines the key fatty acids used to classify the Zanthoxylum species.


2005 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsuko Kohara ◽  
Chiharu Nakajima ◽  
Kimiko Hashimoto ◽  
Toshihiko Ikenaga ◽  
Hiroyuki Tanaka ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 478-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsuko Kohara ◽  
Chiharu Nakajima ◽  
Shigeo Yoshida ◽  
Toshiya Muranaka

Author(s):  
Kenneth H. Downing ◽  
Robert M. Glaeser

The structural damage of molecules irradiated by electrons is generally considered to occur in two steps. The direct result of inelastic scattering events is the disruption of covalent bonds. Following changes in bond structure, movement of the constituent atoms produces permanent distortions of the molecules. Since at least the second step should show a strong temperature dependence, it was to be expected that cooling a specimen should extend its lifetime in the electron beam. This result has been found in a large number of experiments, but the degree to which cooling the specimen enhances its resistance to radiation damage has been found to vary widely with specimen types.


Author(s):  
C. S. Bricker ◽  
S. R. Barnum ◽  
B. Huang ◽  
J. G. Jaworskl

Cyanobacteria are Gram negative prokaryotes that are capable of oxygenic photosynthesis. Although there are many similarities between eukaryotes and cyanobacteria in electron transfer and phosphorylation during photosynthesis, there are two features of the photosynthetic apparatus in cyanobacteria which distinguishes them from plants. Cyanobacteria contain phycobiliproteins organized in phycobilisomes on the surface of photosynthetic membrane. Another difference is in the organization of the photosynthetic membranes. Instead of stacked thylakolds within a chloroplast envelope membrane, as seen In eukaryotes, IntracytopIasmlc membranes generally are arranged in three to six concentric layers. Environmental factors such as temperature, nutrition and light fluency can significantly affect the physiology and morphology of cells. The effect of light Intensity shifts on the ultrastructure of Internal membrane in Anabaena variabilis grown under controlled environmental conditions was examined. Since a major constituent of cyanobacterial thylakolds are lipids, the fatty acid content also was measured and correlated with uItrastructural changes. The regulation of fatty acid synthesis in cyanobacteria ultimately can be studied if the fatty acid content can be manipulated.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yali Wei ◽  
Yan Meng ◽  
Na Li ◽  
Qian Wang ◽  
Liyong Chen

The purpose of the systematic review and meta-analysis was to determine if low-ratio n-6/n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) supplementation affects serum inflammation markers based on current studies.


2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Vollenweider ◽  
Hans Weber ◽  
Stephanie Stolz ◽  
Aurore Chetelat ◽  
Edward E. Farmer
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