Table 2.

Thirty-nine of the selected metabolites with a VIP > 1 and a |p(corr)| > 0.6 as responding biomarkers from the phosphate-deprived group vs. the control group.

Number	Identified Metabolites	VIP	p[1]	p(corr)[1]	Change Rate in Abundance, % (P deprivation vs. the Control)
1	Linolenic acid	3.42	0.30	0.98	−22.77
2	Stearic acid	2.89	−0.25	−0.96	47.74
3	Trisaccharide	2.75	−0.12	−0.88	24.77
4	Adenosine	2.53	0.21	0.98	−43.47
5	Glutamic acid	2.49	0.21	0.97	10.29
6	α-Ketoglutaric acid	2.34	0.25	0.99	−22.15
7	Putrescine	2.16	0.24	1.00	−19.51
8	Fumaric acid	1.84	0.17	0.99	−55.15
9	Trehalose	1.81	0.10	0.93	−20.32
10	Threonic acid	1.79	0.11	0.92	1.05
11	Shikimic acid	1.75	0.14	0.97	−42.50
12	Nicotinamide	1.63	0.15	0.94	−3.00
13	Valine	1.60	0.15	0.98	−4.15
14	Succinic acid	1.51	0.16	0.94	−1.38
15	Proline	1.49	0.11	0.95	−1.51
16	Aspartic acid	1.49	−0.13	−0.97	42.85
17	Benzoic acid	1.48	0.05	0.64	6.81
18	Histidine	1.46	0.13	0.97	−23.75
19	Uracil	1.42	0.15	0.99	−1.08
20	Sucrose	1.41	0.04	0.73	9.17
21	Malic acid	1.39	0.10	0.89	−0.39
22	Serine	1.37	0.10	0.93	−5.55
23	Threitol	1.36	0.05	0.71	−1.11
24	Phenylalanine	1.35	0.15	0.99	−39.56
25	Erythronic acid lactone	1.30	0.08	0.80	1.74
26	Leucine	1.29	0.13	0.99	−38.43
27	Adenosine-5-phosphate	1.27	0.12	0.97	−4.98
28	Palmitic acid	1.23	−0.13	−0.79	25.12
29	3-Phosphoglycerate	1.22	−0.12	−0.99	297.76
30	Fructose-6-phosphate	1.21	0.13	0.99	−21.05
31	Inositol-4-monophosphate	1.21	0.12	0.99	−37.26
32	Alanine	1.19	0.13	0.99	−27.64
33	Pyrophosphate	1.13	−0.12	−0.99	41.90
34	Gluconic acid	1.09	0.08	0.93	−35.19
35	Asparagine	1.09	0.12	0.99	−3.23
36	Pentadecanoic acid	1.07	−0.10	−0.96	32.98
37	Tyrosine	1.02	0.10	0.97	1.73
38	Threonine	1.00	−0.08	−0.94	23.50
39	Cellobiose	1.00	0.10	0.94	8.64

VIP: variable influence on the projection; p[1]: the loading of the first predictive component to explain the largest variation; p(corr)[1]: the correlation coefficient between the metabolite and the score of the first predictive component to explain the largest variation; P: phosphate.