Indication that starch and sucrose are biomarkers for oil yield in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)
- Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) is the most productive oil-producing crop per hectare of land. The oil that accumulates in the mesocarp tissue of the fruit is the highest observed among fruit-producing plants. A comparative analysis between high-, medium-, and low-yielding oil palms, particularly during fruit development, revealed unique characteristics. Metabolomics analysis was able to distinguish accumulation patterns defining of the various developmental stages and oil yield. Interestingly, high- and medium-yielding oil palms exhibited substantially increased sucrose levels compared to low-yielding palms. In addition, parameters such as starch granule morphology, granule size, total starch content, and starch chain length distribution (CLD) differed significantly among the oil yield categories with a clear correlation between oil yield and various starch parameters. These results provide new insights into carbohydrate and starch metabolism for biosynthesis of oil palm fruits, indicating that starch and sucrose can be used asOil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) is the most productive oil-producing crop per hectare of land. The oil that accumulates in the mesocarp tissue of the fruit is the highest observed among fruit-producing plants. A comparative analysis between high-, medium-, and low-yielding oil palms, particularly during fruit development, revealed unique characteristics. Metabolomics analysis was able to distinguish accumulation patterns defining of the various developmental stages and oil yield. Interestingly, high- and medium-yielding oil palms exhibited substantially increased sucrose levels compared to low-yielding palms. In addition, parameters such as starch granule morphology, granule size, total starch content, and starch chain length distribution (CLD) differed significantly among the oil yield categories with a clear correlation between oil yield and various starch parameters. These results provide new insights into carbohydrate and starch metabolism for biosynthesis of oil palm fruits, indicating that starch and sucrose can be used as novel, easy-to-analyze, and reliable biomarker for oil yield.…
| Author details: | Ardha ApriyantoORCiDGND, Julia CompartORCiD, Vincent Zimmermann, Saleh AlseekhORCiDGND, Alisdair FernieORCiDGND, Jörg FettkeORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2022.133361 |
| ISSN: | 0308-8146 |
| ISSN: | 1873-7072 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35671660 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Food chemistry |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | New York, NY [u.a.] |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2022/11/01 |
| Publication year: | 2022 |
| Release date: | 2024/01/12 |
| Tag: | carbohydrate; mesocarp; metabolites; oil palm; oil yield; starch; sucrose; |
| Volume: | 393 |
| Article number: | 133361 |
| Number of pages: | 11 |
| Funding institution: | PT. Astra Agro Lestari Tbk, Indonesia; Biopolymer Analytics group at the; University of Potsdam, Germany |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
| DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 54 Chemie / 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
