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A simple protocol for extraction, derivatization, and analysis of tomato leaf and fruit lipophilic metabolites using GC-MS

External protocol Created on 30 Apr 2014

Authors

Ayushi Kamthan, Mohan Kamthan, Niranjan Chakraborty, Subhra Chakraborty, and Asis Datta

Summary

Gas chromatography- mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is a highly used and well established technological platform for metabolite profiling in both plant and non-plant species. Here we describe a simple protocol for lipophilic compounds extraction and analysis from tomato fruits and leaves which is an important crop in terms of its economic and nutritional value. This is a rapid, reliable and reproducible method to detect and quantify lipophilic metabolites including fatty acids, fatty alcohols, sterols, alkanes, alkenes, and triterpenoids by GC-MS. In addition, this is a simple and convenient method for efficient comparative lipid profiling of wild type and transgenic or mutant tomato fruits.

Further details

The protocol was published on Protocol Exchange on 13 December 2012. To see the entire protocol, click on the source link.

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