Table 1.

Metabolic Pathway of black and white sesames. 217 out of 557 metabolites were putatively identified. Pathway analysis conducted at MetaboAnalyst 3.0 reflected that these 217 metabolites covered 30 pathways.

Metabolic Pathway	Total Number of Metabolites	Detected Metabolites
taurine and hypotaurine metabolism	5	1
alanine, aspartate and glutamate metabolism	22	5
arginine and proline metabolism	38	9
isoquinoline alkaloid biosynthesis	6	2
phenylalanine metabolism	8	2
tyrosine metabolism	18	2
tryptophan metabolism	27	7
sulfur metabolism	12	3
indole alkaloid biosynthesis	7	2
cysteine and methionine metabolism	34	8
glycine, serine and threonine metabolism	30	6
purine metabolism	61	11
riboflavin metabolism	10	1
phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	45	7
methane metabolism	11	1
pantothenate and CoA biosynthesis	14	2
flavonoid biosynthesis	43	2
aminoacyl-tRNA biosynthesis	67	19
pyrimidine metabolism	38	3
lysine degradation	17	2
glutathione metabolism	26	3
lysine biosynthesis	10	3
histidine metabolism	16	2
starch and sucrose metabolism	30	2
glycerophospholipid metabolism	25	3
galactose metabolism	26	1
valine, leucine and isoleucine biosynthesis	26	4
steroid biosynthesis	36	1
porphyrin and chlorophyll metabolism	29	2
selenoamino acid metabolism	19	2