Abstract
Metabolite profiling is a rapidly expanding technology which aims to quantify the entire metabolome of biological samples. Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) is one of the most widely used analytical tools for profiling highly complex mixtures of primary metabolites, such as organic and amino acids, sugars, sugars alcohols, phosphorylated intermediates, and lipophilic compounds. This chapter summarizes all of the preparatory steps for metabolite profiling of polar compounds by GC-MS in tomato fruit, from the sampling of plant material to the derivatization procedures required to render the metabolites volatile.
Sonia Osorio and Phuc Thi Do contributed equally to this work.
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Recent work in our laboratory on tomato metabolite profiling has been supported by The European Union grant FOOD-CT-2006-036296 “DEVELONUTRI”.
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Osorio, S., Do, P.T., Fernie, A.R. (2011). Profiling Primary Metabolites of Tomato Fruit with Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry. In: Hardy, N., Hall, R. (eds) Plant Metabolomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 860. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-594-7_7
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