A metabolomic approach to the identification of health based consumer traits in tomato

我们想吃对我们安全有益的美味水果和蔬菜。抗氧化剂是在水果和蔬菜中发现的化合物，当从饮食中获得时，可以帮助对抗疾病。这就是为什么经常吃水果和蔬菜很重要。为了创造更好的营养水果和蔬菜，必须实施育种计划，将一个品种所希望的改良纳入另一个品种，而另一个品种已经具有其他有价值的品质。这种方法利用了自然多样性，是一种非转基因方法，因此避免了纳入外来DNA。正是水果中分子(化学物质)的组成产生了我们想要的特性。为了确定改善的健康特征和我们想要的其他特征，必须分析感兴趣的分子。现代方法使我们能够同时识别许多分子。我们将使用这些化学方法来识别具有改进特征的番茄品种，特别是那些将改善我们的健康的品种。为了做到这一点，将使用已将多样性杂交到亲本中的番茄品种。确定的化合物的数量和类型将是大量的，使用计算方法，这些分子可以与我们在最终品种中所需的所需特征联系在一起。在我们的情况下，这将是抗氧化剂水平的提高。

We want to eat nice, tasty fruit and vegetables that are safe and good for us. Antioxidants are compounds found in fruits and vegetables that when obtained in the diet can help combat diseases. This is why it is important to eat fruits and vegetables regularly. In order to create improved, nutritional fruit and vegetables breeding programmes must be carried out to incorporate the desired improvements from one variety into another, which already has other worthwhile qualities. This approach utilises natural diversity and is a non-GM approach, thus avoiding the incorporation of foreign DNA. It is the composition of the molecules (chemicals) in the fruit that yield the characteristic properties we want. In order to identify improved health features and other characteristics that we want the molecules of interest have to be analysed. Modern methods enable us to identify many molecules simultaneously. We will use these chemical approaches to identify tomato varieties with improved features, especially those that will improve our health. To do this tomato collections that have had diversity crossed into a parent will be used. The amounts and types of compounds identified will be large and using computational approaches, these molecules can be linked to the desired characteristics we need to have in the final variety. In our case, this will be an enhanced level of antioxidants.