Fig. 5

Overview of DEGs and metabolite abundance in PPP, TCA cycle and photosynthesis in YQ3-xyl compared with WT. DEGs were identified with Log2 of fold change (FC) ≥ 1 or ≤ − 1 and p < 0.001 and metabolites driving difference were identified by reaching variable importance for the projection (VIP) ≥ 1, FC ≥ 1.2 or ≤ 0.833 and p < 0.05. Red color represents highly upregulated metabolites or genes and blue color represents highly downregulated metabolites or genes. In photosynthesis light reaction pattern, DEGs columns with different colors indicated genes involved in different reaction zones, phycobilisome (orange), PSII and PSI (green), cytochrome b6/f (light green), plastocyanin (light blue), ATPase (blue). RUBP, ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate; S-1,7-BP, sedoheptulose 1,7-bisphosphate; gap3, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase; PSI, photosystem I; PSII, photosystem II