Untargeted large-scale plant metabolomics using liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 778-791

  De Vos, Ric C H ^a,b   Moco, Sofia ^a   Lommen, Arjen ^a,b   Keurentjes, Joost J B ^a,b   Bino, Raoul J ^a,b   Hall, Robert D ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRE FOR BIOSYSTEMS GENOMICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHANOL; PLANT EXTRACT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; GENETIC MARKER; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITE; METABOLOMICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLANT EXTRACTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34248512719     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.95     Document Type: Article

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