Metabolic diversity in sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas, Lam.) leaves and storage roots.

ABSTRACT: Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas, Lam.) is an important root vegetable in developing countries. After its domestication in Neotropical America, human migration led to the distribution of the sweet potato plant throughout the world. Both leaf and storage root are high in compounds of nutritional value. Yet, the storage roots are of particular value due to their significant content of provitamin A (β-carotene). The breeding effort for elite sweet potato lines led to the reduction of genetic diversity and the potential to improve other traits. The focus of the present study was to assess the metabolic diversity of 27 sweet potato cultivars including landraces and improved varieties. A metabolite profiling approach was optimised for sweet potato leaf and storage root tissue and 130 metabol

SUBMITTER: Drapal M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6312539 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature