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Journal of Experimental Botany 2005 56(421):2807-2819; doi:10.1093/jxb/eri273
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The potential of metabolite profiling as a selection tool for genotype discrimination in Populus

Andrew R. Robinson1, Rana Gheneim1, Robert A. Kozak1, Dave D. Ellis2 and Shawn D. Mansfield1,*

1Department of Wood Science, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
2United States Department of Agriculture, National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, 1111 South Mason Street, Fort Collins, CO, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Fax: +1 604 822 9104. E-mail: shawnman{at}interchange.ubc.ca

Differences between wild-type Populus tremulaxalba and two transgenic lines with modified lignin monomer composition, were interrogated using metabolic profiling. Analysis of metabolite abundance data by GC-MS, coupled with principal components analysis (PCA), successfully differentiated between lines that had distinct phenotypes, whether samples were taken from the cambial zone or non-lignifying suspension tissue cultures. Interestingly, the GC-MS analysis detected relatively few phenolic metabolites in cambial extracts, although a single metabolite associated with the differentiation between lines was directly related to the phenylpropanoid pathway or other down-stream aspects of lignin biosynthesis. In fact, carbohydrates, which have only an indirect relationship with the modified lignin monomer composition, featured strongly in the line-differentiating aspects of the statistical analysis. Traditional HPLC analysis was employed to verify the GC-MS data. These findings demonstrate that metabolic traits can be dissected reliably and accurately by metabolomic analyses, enabling the discrimination of individual genotypes of the same tree species that exhibit marked differences in industrially relevant wood traits. Furthermore, this validates the potential of using metabolite profiling techniques for marker generation in the context of plant/tree breeding for industrial applications.

Key words: Ferulate 5-hydroxylase, lignin, metabolite profiling, metabolomics, Populus, suspension cultures


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