Metabolic mechanism of floral scent compounds

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26660029
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Horticultural science
• Research Institution: National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
• Principal Investigator: Oyama-Okubo Naomi 国立研究開発法人農業・食品産業技術総合研究機構, 野菜花き研究部門, ユニット長 (90343962)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ペチュニア / 香気成分 / メタボローム解析

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To clarify metabolite dynamics of petunia wild species and lily, metabolome analysis of their petal samples taken at 12 pm and 0 pm was performed. From the sample at 0 pm of petunia and lily, scent component metabolite candidate compound having hydroxyl group added to the aromatic ring was obtained. In the future, I will extract the compound from petunia and lily, and after purification, structure determination will be made.
Analysis of the emitted scent compounds of a new fragrant blue petunia cultivar revealed that it is a composition not found in petunia wild species and existing petunia cultivars.

Free Research Field

天然物化学