bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.01.127720; this version posted June 1, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Short title: Specialized Metabolite Diversity 2 3 Title: Switchgrass metabolomics reveals striking genotypic and developmental differences in 4 saponins 5 6 Author for contact: 7 Robert Last, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, 8 603 Wilson RD, East Lansing, MI 48823 USA, email:
[email protected], telephone: (517) 432- 9 3278, ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6974-9587 10 11 Xingxing Lia, b, A. Daniel Jonesa, b and Robert L. Lasta, b, c * 12 13 aDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, MI 48824; 14 b DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, MI 48824. 15 cDepartment of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, MI 48824 16 17 ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7725-0329 (X. L.); 0000-0002-7408-6690 (A.D.J.); 0000-0001-6974- 18 9587 (R.L.L.) 19 20 One sentence summary: Switchgrass structurally diverse steroidal saponins and phenolics vary in 21 abundance and structures in a tissue- and ecotype-specific manner. 22 23 *Corresponding author:
[email protected] 24 25 List of author contributions: 26 X.L. Conceived and performed research, created figures and tables and wrote manuscript 27 A.D.J. Conceived of experimental approaches, provided technical input, reviewed data, edited 28 manuscript 29 R.L.L Conceived of experimental approaches, wrote and edited manuscript 30 31 Funding information: 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.01.127720; this version posted June 1, 2020.