Volatile apocarotenoid discovery and quantification in Arabidopsis thaliana: optimized sensitive analysis via HS-SPME-GC/MS 

 -  Metabolomics, 15(5), p.79, 2019 .
<br/><br/> In the field of carotenoid metabolism researchers' focus has been directed recently toward the discovery and quantification of carotenoid cleavage products (i.e. apocarotenoids, excluding the well-studied carotenoid-derived hormones abscisic acid and strigolactones), due to their emerging roles as putative signaling molecules. Gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC/MS)and sample preparation via headspace solid phase micro-extraction (HS-SPME)are widely used analytical techniques for broad untargeted metabolomics studies and until now, no optimized quantitative targeted HS-SPME-GC/MS method has been developed specifically for volatile apocarotenoids (VAs)in planta. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA<br/>APOCAROTENOID<br/>SPME<br/>VOLATILES<br/>GC/MS