FIGURE 5.
Principal component analysis score plot of the changes in glycolytic pathway metabolite concentrations, ATP:ADP ratio, NADH:NAD+ ratio, and respiration rate (RESP) during 60 days storage. Ovals identify groups of metabolites that exhibit similarities in storage-related concentration changes. Ovals are gray where metabolites share similar changes in concentration, but have no obvious connection with each other. Roots were stored 10 days at 10°C and 90 ± 5% RH, then stored at 4°C, 90 ± 5% RH for 50 days. Principal components 1 and 2 account for 34 and 30%, respectively, of the variance in the data after standardization. Abbreviations used for metabolites are defined in Table 3. PCA loading plot is available in Supplementary Figure S2.