Comprehensive metabolite profiling of onion bulbs (Allium cepa) using liquid chromatography coupled with electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Metabolomics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Böttcher, Christoph ^a   Krähmer, Andrea ^a   Stürtz, Melanie ^b   Widder, Sabine ^b   Schulz, Hartwig ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b SYMRISE AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alkenylcysteine sulfoxides; Allium cepa; Amino acids; Flavonoids; Fructooligosaccharides; Metabolomics; Tandem mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ALLIIN; CYSTEINE CONJUGATE; CYSTEINE DERIVATIVE; FLAVONOID; FRUCTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL PEPTIDE; GLUCOSE; GLUTATHIONE DERIVATIVE; ONION EXTRACT; PEPTIDE; SAPONIN; SEMI POLAR SECONDARY METABOLITE; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEUTERIUM HYDROGEN EXCHANGE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; ONION; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; POLYMERIZATION; QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETRY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 85013053981     PISSN: 15733882     EISSN: 15733890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11306-017-1175-1     Document Type: Article

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