Geographical and Climatic Dependencies of Green Tea (Camellia sinensis) Metabolites: A 1H NMR-Based Metabolomics Study

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 58, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 10582-10589

  Lee, Jang Eun ^a   Lee, Bum Jin ^b   Chung, Jin Oh ^b   Hwang, Jeong Ah ^b   Lee, Sang Jun ^b   Lee, Cherl Ho ^a   Hong, Young Shick ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b AmorePacific Corporation   (South Korea)

Author keywords

1H NMR; Climate; Green tea; Metabolite; Metabolomics

Indexed keywords

1H NMR; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CLIMATE; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; EPICATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN-3-GALLATE; EXPOSURE-TIME; GREEN TEA; HIGH TEMPERATURE; JEJU ISLAND; LATENT STRUCTURES; LOW TEMPERATURES; METABOLIC CHARACTERISTICS; METABOLITE PROFILING; METABOLOMICS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ORTHOGONAL PROJECTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION METHOD; QUALITY STRATEGY; QUINIC ACIDS; SOUTH KOREA; SPRING SEASON; THEANINE;

BIOMOLECULES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GLUCOSE; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAIN; RESONANCE;

AMINO ACIDS;

AMINO ACID; CAFFEINE; CATECHIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; GALLOCATECHIN; GLUTAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; THEANINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; METABOLOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SOUTH KOREA; TEA;

AMINO ACIDS; CAFFEINE; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CATECHIN; CLIMATE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GLUTAMATES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLOMICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS;

EID: 78049255025     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: 15205118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf102415m     Document Type: Article

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