Natalia Carreno-Quintero, Takayuki Tohge, Rebecca Van Acker, Lauren S McKee, Qi Zhou, Antje Bolze, Xiaohui Xing, Merve Özparpucu, Markus Rüggeberg, Thomas Piofczyk, Yaw Koram, Vincent Bulone, Wout Boerjan, Alisdair R Fernie, Paul D Fraser
The evaluation of plant-based feedstocks is an important aspect of biorefining. Nicotiana glauca is a solanaceous, non-food crop that produces large amounts of biomass and is well adapted to grow in suboptimal conditions. In the present article, compatible sequential solvent extractions were applied to N. glauca leaves to enable the generation of enriched extracts containing higher metabolite content comparing to direct leaf extracts. Typically, between 60 to 100 metabolite components were identified within the fractions...
January 18, 2024: Bioresources and Bioprocessing