Claim · model-written summary
Amino acid and flavonoid metabolism were identified as core pathways of varietal differences.
- Taxon
- cowpea
Vigna unguiculatat0 - Outcome
- varietal differencese0
- Qualifier
- amino acid metabolism and flavonoid metabolisme0
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Verbatim
e0“amino acid metabolism and flavonoid metabolism are the core pathways determining varietal differences”
t0“cowpea”
Title
Comprehensive volatile profiling and metabolomics analysis of cowpea
Xiuhua He; Yanchi Zhou; Qiaozhu Wei; et al. Food Chemistry X 2026. doi:10.1016/j.fochx.2026.103592
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation The 14 cowpea varieties contained 174 identified volatile organic compounds.
- Observation Esters, heterocyclic compounds and ketones accounted for 51.15% of the volatile compounds.
- Observation Volatile distributions were variety specific.
- Observation Vu-1 was enriched in β-pinene and 3-pentanol.
- Observation Metabolomics identified 392 differentially expressed metabolites.