IC4R010-Metabolomics-2015-25578272
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Project Title
- Using Metabolomic Approaches to Explore Chemical Diversity in Rice
The Background of This Project
- Rice (Oryza sativa) is an excellent resource; it comprises 25% of the total caloric intake of the world’s population, and rice plants yield many types of bioactive compounds. To determine the number of metabolites in rice and their chemical diversity, the metabolite composition of cultivated rice has been investigated with analytical techniques such as mass spectrometry (MS) and/or nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and rice metabolite databases have been constructed. This review summarizes current knowledge on metabolites in rice including sugars, amino and organic acids, aromatic compounds, and phytohormones detected by gas chromatography–MS, liquid chromatography–MS, and capillary electrophoresis–MS.
Research Findings
Labs working on this Project
- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
- Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Chiba 260-8675, Japan
Corresponding Author
- Miyako Kusano (miyako.kusano@riken.jp) & Kazuki Saito (kazuki.saito@riken.jp)
