Raffinose Family Oligosaccharides: Friend or Foe for Human and Plant Health?

Frontiers in Plant Science

Rajeev K. Varshney²  Surinder Chopra³  Mahendar Thudi⁴  Asheesh K. Singh⁶  Liza Van der Laan⁶  Joscif Raigne⁶  Dinakaran Elango⁶  Kevin O. Chiteri⁶  Arti Singh⁶  Antonella Ferela⁶  Sheelamary Sebastiar⁷  Wanyan Wang⁸  Noureddine El Haddad⁹  Bharath Raja^1,11  Naveen A. Thaiparambil^1,11  Karthika Rajendran^1,12 

[1] 0International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, India;1State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Crop Research Innovation Centre, Food Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia;2Department of Plant Science, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States;Centre for Crop Health, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia;Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, India;Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States;Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, India;Ecosystem Science and Management, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States;Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Rabat, Morocco;International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Rabat, Morocco;School of Biosciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India;VIT School of Agricultural Innovations and Advanced Learning, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India;

关键词: α-galactosides;    flatulence;    galactinol synthase;    prebiotic carbohydrates;    grain legume crops;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpls.2022.829118

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFOs) are widespread across the plant kingdom, and their concentrations are related to the environment, genotype, and harvest time. RFOs are known to carry out many functions in plants and humans. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of RFOs, including their beneficial and anti-nutritional properties. RFOs are considered anti-nutritional factors since they cause flatulence in humans and animals. Flatulence is the single most important factor that deters consumption and utilization of legumes in human and animal diets. In plants, RFOs have been reported to impart tolerance to heat, drought, cold, salinity, and disease resistance besides regulating seed germination, vigor, and longevity. In humans, RFOs have beneficial effects in the large intestine and have shown prebiotic potential by promoting the growth of beneficial bacteria reducing pathogens and putrefactive bacteria present in the colon. In addition to their prebiotic potential, RFOs have many other biological functions in humans and animals, such as anti-allergic, anti-obesity, anti-diabetic, prevention of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and cryoprotection. The wide-ranging applications of RFOs make them useful in food, feed, cosmetics, health, pharmaceuticals, and plant stress tolerance; therefore, we review the composition and diversity of RFOs, describe the metabolism and genetics of RFOs, evaluate their role in plant and human health, with a primary focus in grain legumes.

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