PMID- 26928722 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20161107 LR - 20240324 IS - 1756-0500 (Electronic) IS - 1756-0500 (Linking) VI - 9 DP - 2016 Feb 29 TI - Unbiased profiling of volatile organic compounds in the headspace of Allium plants using an in-tube extraction device. PG - 133 LID - 10.1186/s13104-016-1942-5 [doi] LID - 133 AB - BACKGROUND: Plants produce and emit important volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which have an essential role in biotic and abiotic stress responses and in plant-plant and plant-insect interactions. In order to study the bouquets from plants qualitatively and quantitatively, a comprehensive, analytical method yielding reproducible results is required. RESULTS: We applied in-tube extraction (ITEX) and solid-phase microextraction (SPME) for studying the emissions of Allium plants. The collected HS samples were analyzed by gas chromatography-time-of-flight-mass spectrometry (GC-TOF-MS), and the results were subjected to multivariate analysis. In case of ITEX-method Allium cultivars released more than 300 VOCs, out of which we provisionally identified 50 volatiles. We also used the VOC profiles of Allium samples to discriminate among groups of A. fistulosum, A. chinense (rakkyo), and A. tuberosum (Oriental garlic). As we found 12 metabolite peaks including dipropyl disulphide with significant changes in A. chinense and A. tuberosum when compared to the control cultivar, these metabolite peaks can be used for chemotaxonomic classification of A. chinense, tuberosum, and A. fistulosum. CONCLUSIONS: Compared to SPME-method our ITEX-based VOC profiling technique contributes to automatic and reproducible analyses. Hence, it can be applied to high-throughput analyses such as metabolite profiling. FAU - Kusano, Miyako AU - Kusano M AD - Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. kusano.miyako.fp@u.tsukuba.ac.jp. AD - RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. kusano.miyako.fp@u.tsukuba.ac.jp. FAU - Kobayashi, Makoto AU - Kobayashi M AD - RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. kobamako@riken.jp. FAU - Iizuka, Yumiko AU - Iizuka Y AD - RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. yiizuka5@gmail.com. AD - Department of Genome System Science, Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. yiizuka5@gmail.com. FAU - Fukushima, Atsushi AU - Fukushima A AD - RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. atsushi.fukushima@riken.jp. FAU - Saito, Kazuki AU - Saito K AD - RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. kazuki.saito@riken.jp. AD - Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Chiba, Japan. kazuki.saito@riken.jp. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20160229 PL - England TA - BMC Res Notes JT - BMC research notes JID - 101462768 RN - 0 (Plant Extracts) RN - 0 (Volatile Organic Compounds) SB - IM MH - Allium/chemistry/*classification/*metabolism MH - Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry MH - Metabolome/*physiology MH - Plant Components, Aerial/chemistry MH - Plant Extracts/chemistry MH - Solid Phase Microextraction/*instrumentation/methods MH - Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization MH - Volatile Organic Compounds/classification/*isolation & purification PMC - PMC4772445 EDAT- 2016/03/02 06:00 MHDA- 2016/11/08 06:00 PMCR- 2016/02/29 CRDT- 2016/03/02 06:00 PHST- 2015/08/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/02/17 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/03/02 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/03/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/11/08 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/02/29 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1186/s13104-016-1942-5 [pii] AID - 1942 [pii] AID - 10.1186/s13104-016-1942-5 [doi] PST - epublish SO - BMC Res Notes. 2016 Feb 29;9:133. doi: 10.1186/s13104-016-1942-5.