Metabolic changes in the developing sugarcane culm associated with high yield and early high sugar content.

ABSTRACT: Sugarcane, with its exceptional biomass and sugar yield, has a high potential for the production of bioenergy, biomaterials, and high-value products. Currently, the link between metabolic changes in the developing internodes in sugarcane and final yield and sugar characteristics is not well understood. In order to investigate these correlations, 1,440 internodes were collected and combined to generate a set of 360 samples across 24 sugarcane cultivars at five different developmental stages. A combination of metabolome profiling and trait co-expression analyses were conducted to reveal the interaction between the metabolome and essential agronomic traits, including Brix (total sugar), polarity (sucrose content), purity (sucrose purity), commercially extractable sucrose, fiber, and tons of c

SUBMITTER: Perlo V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7656173 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature