Abstract
To explore the transcriptional control of phenylpropanoid pathway (PPP) involved in vanillin flavour metabolites production in tuberous roots of Decalepis hamiltonii, four PPP key genes expressed during the tuber development were identified and their mRNA expression profiles were evaluated using quantitative real-time PCR. Flavour metabolite quantification by HPLC analysis confirmed 10, 170 and 500µg/g 2-hydroxy-4-methoxy benzaldehyde and 4, 20 and 40µg/g vanillin in first- (3-month-old plant), second- (18-month-old plant) and third-stage tubers (60-month-old matured plant), respectively. The expression of all four genes phenylalanine ammonia lyase (DhPAL), cinnamate-4-hydroxylase (DhC4H), caffeic acid-O-methyltransferase (DhCOMT) and vanillin synthase (DhVAN) increased with flavour development from first stage to second stage. A decrease in expression from 1.9-folds to 0.1-folds and 19.2-folds to 5.2-folds for DhCOMT and DhVAN was recorded for second stage to third stage, respectively. However, a gradual increase in expression of DhPAL (up to 26.4-folds) and a constant expression pattern for DhC4H (up to 7.1-folds) was evident from second stage to third stage of flavour development. The decrease in the expression levels of DhCOMT and DhVAN in third stage shows thatthe second-stage tubers are more transcriptionally active towards flavour biosynthesis.
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