Removal of trimethylamine (fishy odor) by C3 and CAM plants
2015
Boraphech, Phattara | Thiravetyan, Paitip
From screening 23 plant species, it was found that Pterocarpus indicus (C₃) and Sansevieria trifasciata (crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM)) were the most effective in polar gaseous trimethylamine (TMA) uptake, reaching up to 90 % uptake of initial TMA (100 ppm) within 8 h, and could remove TMA at cycles 1–4 without affecting photosystem II (PSII) photochemistry. Up to 55 and 45 % of TMA was taken up by S. trifasciata stomata and leaf epicuticular wax, respectively. During cycles 1–4, interestingly, S. trifasciata changed its stomata apertures, which was directly induced by gaseous TMA and light treatments. In contrast, for P. indicus the leaf epicuticular wax and stem were the major pathways of TMA removal, followed by stomata; these pathways accounted for 46, 46, and 8 %, respectively, of TMA removal percentages. Fatty acids, particularly tetradecanoic (C₁₄) acid and octadecanoic (C₁₈) acid, were found to be the main cuticular wax components in both plants, and were associated with TMA removal ability. Moreover, the plants could degrade TMA via multiple metabolic pathways associated with carbon/nitrogen interactions. In CAM plants, one of the crucial pathways enabled 78 % of TMA to be transformed directly to dimethylamine (DMA) and methylamine (MA), which differed from C₃ plant pathways. Various metabolites were also produced for further detoxification and mineralization so that TMA was completely degraded by plants.
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