Determination of tocopherol and tocotrienol content of Greek barley varieties under conventional and organic cultivation techniques using validated reverse phase high-performance liquid chromatography method

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1732-1739

  Tsochatzis, Emmanouil D ^a   Bladenopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Papageorgiou, Maria ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Barley; Conventional; Cultivation; HPLC; Organic; Tocols

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOTRIENOL; TOCOPHEROL;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GREECE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORDEUM; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIC FARMING; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGRICULTURE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, REVERSE-PHASE; GREECE; HORDEUM; HUMANS; ORGANIC AGRICULTURE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOCOPHEROLS; TOCOTRIENOLS;

HORDEUM;

EID: 84859885272     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: 10970010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.5539     Document Type: Article

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