Abstract
AbstractThe allotetraploid Brassicales member canola (Brassica napus L.) is an oil-seed crop sought primarily for vegetable oil, animal feed, and biofuel. With the advent of -omics (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) technologies, numerous studies have focused on deciphering the functional genes, proteins, and metabolites in canola. However, the oil-yielding seeds are of commercial interest and only a handful of studies using mass-spectrometry (MS) or spectroscopy based platforms have attempted to characterize and quantify metabolites of the seed. Baring metabolite profiling approaches which study groups of chemicals, metabolomic insights into the seeds are very recent. Canola seeds are enriched in fatty acids, glucosinolates, phenylpropanoids (i.e. sinapoyl cholines), flavonoids, and phytohormones among others as has become evident from MS and spectroscopy-based recent studies. Thus, cataloging of the seed metabolome is essential before gaining further insights into their roles in s...
Highlights
The allotetraploid Brassicales member canola (Brassica napus L.) is an oil-seed crop sought primarily for vegetable oil, animal feed, and biofuel
Apart from the sulfur-smelling and -containing chemical compound class known as glucosinolates, canola seeds are rich in fatty acids which make them commercially important as an oil crop
Canola seeds are used for the production of animal feed, vegetable oil, and biodiesel, whereas the canola seed meal as a byproduct contains the highest quality of proteins in terms of nutritive value, antigenicity, and amino acid composition (Pan, Jiang, & Pan, 2011)
Summary
The allotetraploid Brassicales member canola (Brassica napus L.) is an oil-seed crop sought primarily for vegetable oil, animal feed, and biofuel. Apart from the sulfur-smelling and -containing chemical compound class known as glucosinolates, canola seeds are rich in fatty acids which make them commercially important as an oil crop. This treatise is to collate all the metabolites found and quantified in canola seeds as a phytoresource for future metabolomics studies.
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