Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (5): 62-73. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20195590

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Identification of Key Ester Substances and Screening of Enzyme Gene Family Members for Aroma Differences in Fruits of Oriental Melons

OUYANG Shixian1, LIU Shengbo1, SUN Chao1, CHEN Kai1, HE Shuping2, LI Chunxia1, JIN Yazhong1,   

  1. 1 College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing 163319
    2 College of Agriculture, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing 163319, China
  • Received:2024-11-18 Published:2025-11-03

Abstract:

To determine the relationship between the esters compounds and key enzyme activities and genes that involved in the differences in aromas of oriental melon fruits,the disparities of ester metabolites and the enzyme activities and gene expression characteristics of CXE and AAT were investigated,with the fruits of oriental melon,DX108 and DX3-5,used as experimental materials.The results showed that a total of 644 metabolites were detected in oriental melon fruits,including 114 esters.A total of 108 metabolite variations and 23 different esters were detected in mature fruits.Compared with DX3-5,the types and contents of esters in ripe fruits of DX108 increased significantly,indicating that esters were the key substances in the formation of aroma difference in ripe fruits of oriental melons.K-means clustering analysis showed that isoamyl acetate,ethyl 2-methybuyrate,β-ethyl phenylacetate,p-cresol acetate,hexyl acetate ester,methyl phenylacetate,methyl anthranilate and ethyl caproate were the key esters,which caused the difference of ripe fruit aroma between two oriental melons.In addition,the activities of AAT and CXE in fruits showed opposite trend,suggesting that the coordination of AAT and CXE affected the metabolism of esters.The expression characteristics of AAT and CXE gene family members were different with fruit development,and correlation analysis suggested that CmCXE5,CmCXE6 and CmAAT5 were involved in the metabolism of eight different esters in oriental melon ripe fruits.From those findings,the variations in synthesis and accumulation of eight key esters are important reasons that direct the difference in aroma of two kinds of oriental melon,and CmCXE5,CmCXE6 and CmAAT5 may play a major regulatory role.

Key words: Oriental melon, Esters, Carboxylesterase, Alcohol acyltransferase, Gene expression

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OUYANG Shixian, LIU Shengbo, SUN Chao, CHEN Kai, HE Shuping, LI Chunxia, JIN Yazhong. Identification of Key Ester Substances and Screening of Enzyme Gene Family Members for Aroma Differences in Fruits of Oriental Melons[J]. Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica, 2025, 40(5): 62-73. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20195590.

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