Identification of Potential Metabolites Mediating Bird's Selective Feeding on Prunus mira Flowers.

ABSTRACT: In peach orchards, birds severely damage flowers during blossom season, decreasing the fruit yield potential. However, the wild peach species Prunus mira shows intraspecific variations of bird damage, indicating that some of the wild trees have developed strategies to avert bird foraging. Motivated by this observation, we formulated the present study to identify the potential flower metabolites mediating the bird's selective feeding behavior in P. mira flowers. The birds' preferred (FG) and avoided (BFT) flowers were collected from wild P. mira trees at three different locations, and their metabolite contents were detected, quantified, and compared. The widely-targeted metabolomics approach was employed to detect a diverse set of 603 compounds, predominantly, organic a

SUBMITTER: Zhang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6612375 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature