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Plant specialized metabolites are often synthesized and stored in dedicated morphological structures such as glandular trichomes, resin ducts, or laticifers where they accumulate in large concentrations. How this high productivity is achieved is still elusive, in particular, with respect to the interface between primary and specialized metabolism. Here, we focus on glandular trichomes to survey recent progress in understanding how plant metabolic cell factories manage to balance homeostasis of essential central metabolites while producing large quantities of compounds that constitute a metabolic sink. In particular, we review the role of gene duplications, transcription factors and photosynthesis.
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De-oiled rapeseed is a rich source of proteins and phenolic compounds. The phenolic compounds, namely sinapic acid derivatives (SAD), could occur as free sinapic acid, esterified (as sinapine, the choline ester of sinapic acid) and decarboxylated (as canolol) forms. Rapeseed protein preparations containing very low phenolic compounds have been the focus of our ongoing research. A precipitated rapeseed protein isolate is investigated for SAD such as sinapine, sinapoyl glucose, canolol using HPLC–DAD and LC–MS. Profile of the phenolic compounds of de-oiled rapeseed, press cakes and the precipitated protein isolate are compared. HPLC–DAD analysis indicated SAD; particularly sinapine is the main phenolic compound of all the substrates. The protein derivation process did not remarkably alter the profile of the investigated protein isolate.
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