Abstract
Metabolite profiling was used to characterize stress responses of potato tissue subjected to reversible electroporation, providing insights on how potato tissue responds to a physical stimulus such as pulsed electric fields (PEF), which is an artificial stress. Wounded potato tissue was subjected to field strengths ranging from 200 to 400 V/cm, with a single rectangular pulse of 1 ms. Electroporation was demonstrated by propidium iodide staining of the cell nucleae. Metabolic profiling of data obtained through GC/TOF-MS and UPLC/TOF-MS complemented with orthogonal projections to latent structures clustering analysis showed that 24 h after the application of PEF, potato metabolism shows PEF-specific responses characterized by the changes in the hexose pool that may involve starch and ascorbic acid degradation.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 469-479 |
Journal | Planta |
Volume | 230 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Other Engineering and Technologies
- Biological Sciences
Free keywords
- Electroporation
- Cell membrane recovery
- Metabolic analysis
- multivariate data analysis
- OPLS
- Wounding
- Stress response