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Arabidopsis thaliana Membrane Lipid Molecular Species and Their Mass Spectral Analysis

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High-Throughput Phenotyping in Plants

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Herein, current approaches to electrospray ionization mass spectrometry-based analyses of membrane lipid molecular species found in Arabidopsis thaliana are summarized. Additionally, the identities of over 500 reported membrane lipid molecular species are assembled.

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    Thilani Samarakoon, Sunitha Shiva, Kaleb Lowe, Pamela Tamura, Mary R. Roth & Ruth Welti

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Samarakoon, T., Shiva, S., Lowe, K., Tamura, P., Roth, M.R., Welti, R. (2012). Arabidopsis thaliana Membrane Lipid Molecular Species and Their Mass Spectral Analysis. In: Normanly, J. (eds) High-Throughput Phenotyping in Plants. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 918. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-995-2_13

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