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A detailed account is presented of our high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (HR-NMR) and near infrared (NIR) calibration models, methodologies and validation procedures, together with a large number of composition analyses for soybean seeds. NIR calibrations were developed based on both HR-NMR and analytical chemistry reference data for oil and twelve amino acid residues in mature soybeans and soybean embryos. This is our first report of HR-NMR determinations of amino acid profiles of proteins from whole soybean seeds, without protein extraction from the seed. It was found that the best results for both oil and protein calibrations were obtained with a Partial Least Squares Regression (PLS-1) analysis of our extensive NIR spectral data, acquired with either a DA7000 Dual Diode Array (Si and InGaAs detectors) instrument or with several Fourier Transform NIR (FT-NIR) spectrometers equipped with an integrating sphere/InGaAs detector accessory. In order to extend the bulk soybean samples calibration models to the analysis of single soybean seeds, we have analized in detail the component NIR spectra of all major soybean constituents through spectral deconvolutions for bulk, single and powdered soybean seeds. Baseline variations and light scattering effects in the NIR spectra were corrected, respectively, by calculating the first-order derivatives of the spectra and the Multiplicative Scattering Correction (MSC). The single soybean seed NIR spectra are broadly similar to those of bulk whole soybeans, with the exception of minor peaks in single soybean NIR spectra in the region from 950 to 1,000 nm. Based on previous experience with bulk soybean NIR calibrations, the PLS-1 calibration model was selected for protein, oil and moisture calibrations that we developed for single soybean seed analysis. In order to improve the reliability and robustness of our calibrations with the PLS-1 model we employed standard samples with a wide range of soybean constituent compositions: from 34% to 55% for protein, from 11% to 22% for oil and from 2% to 16% for moisture. Such calibrations are characterized by low standard errors and high degrees of correlation for all major soybean constituents. Morever, we obtained highly resolved NIR chemical images for selected regions of mature soybean embryos that allow for the quantitation of oil and protein components. Recent developments in high-resolution FT-NIR microspectroscopy extend the NIR sensitivity range to the picogram level, with submicron spatial resolution in the component distribution throughout intact soybean seeds and embryos. Such developments are potentially important for biotechnology applications that require rapid and ultra- sensitive analyses, such as those concerned with high-content microarrays in Genomics and Proteomics research. Other important applications of FT-NIR microspectroscopy are envisaged in biomedical research aimed at cancer prevention, the early detection of tumors by NIR-fluorescence, and identification of single cancer cells, or single virus particles in vivo by super-resolution microscopy/ microspectroscopy.
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Baianu, I., You, T., Costescu, D. et al. Determination of Soybean Oil, Protein and Amino Acid Residues in Soybean Seeds by High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMRS) and Near Infrared (NIRS) . Nat Prec (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2012.7053.1
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Keywords
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Principles and Analysis of soybeans and other oil seeds
- Near-Infrared (NIR) Principles
- Instrumentation
- Calibration and Analysis of Oil Seeds
- Nondestructive Composition analysis of Soybeans Seeds
- Corn and Wheat Grains
- High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Determination of Soybean Oil
- Fatty Acid Composition
- isoflavones
- Protein and Amino Acid Residues
- HR NMR
- High Resolution NMR of Proteins and Amino Acids
- NMR of Oil and Protein Determinations in Mature Soybeans
- High Resolution Near-Infrared Determination of Soybean Oil
- Protein and Amino Acid Residues
- amino acid profiles
- Partial Least Square Regression-1 (PLS-1)
- PCR
- PCA
- and MLR Algorithms
- Fourier Transform NIR (FT-NIR)
- spectral deconvolutions
- Multiplicative Scattering Correction (MSC)
- protein
- oil and moisture calibrations for Single Soybean Seed analysis
- NIR chemical images for selected regions of Mature Soybean Embryos
- NIR-fluorescence
- dual Diode Array instruments; bulk and single soybean seed composition analysis
- high-resolution 13C NMR
- Protein and Amino Acid Composition Determinations in Soybeans
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