A liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry platform for the analysis of phyllobilins, the major degradation products of chlorophyll in Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 505-518

  Christ, Bastien ^a,b   Hauenstein, Mareike ^a   Hörtensteiner, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

chlorophyll catabolites; LC MS; metabolite database; phyllobilins; senescence; technical advance

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DEGRADATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITES; PLANT EXTRACTS; SPECTROMETRY;

COLLISION INDUCED DISSOCIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT APPROACHES; LC-MS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY - MASS SPECTROMETRIES; PHYLLOBILINS; SENESCENCE; TECHNICAL ADVANCES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

CHLOROPHYLL;

ARABIDOPSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHLOROPHYLL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84987670089     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13253     Document Type: Article

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