Combined Metabolome and Transcriptome Analysis Highlights the Host's Influence on Cistanche deserticola Metabolite Accumulation.

ABSTRACT: The medicinal plant Cistanche deserticola Ma (Orobanchaceae) is a holoparasitic angiosperm that takes life-essential materials from Haloxylon ammodendron (C. A. Mey.) Bunge (Amaranthaceae) roots. Although many experiments have been conducted to improve the quality of C. deserticola, little attention has been paid to the host's influence on metabolite accumulation. In this study, transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses were performed to unveil the host's role in C. deserticola's metabolite accumulation, especially of phenylethanoid glycosides (PhGs). The results indicate that parasitism by C. deserticola causes significant changes in H. ammodendron roots in relation to metabolites and genes linked to phenylalanine metabolism, tryptophan metabolism a

SUBMITTER: Feng R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10178529 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature