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Rapid plant volatiles screening using headspace SPME and person-portable gas chromatography–mass spectrometry
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posted on 2019-01-01, 00:00 authored by Y F Wong, D D Yan, Robert ShellieRobert Shellie, D Sciarrone, P J MarriottRapid on-site screening of biogenic volatile emissions from leaves of living plants is demonstrated, using headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) with a portable gas chromatograph (PGC), fitted with a low-thermal mass (LTM) column equipped with a miniature toroidal ion trap mass spectrometer (ITMS). For field sampling, the study was conducted at the Royal Botanical Garden, Cranbourne, Australia, with the sampling site located in the Peppermint Garden. Twelve designated plants in the families of Asteraceae, Lamiaceae, Myrtaceae, Pittosporaceae, and Rutaceae were chosen for this field study. A customised SPME syringe was used for headspace sampling and sample introduction; leaves were collected into vials, equilibrated, sampled onto a PDMS/DVB-coated fibre, then desorbed in the GC inlet in split mode. A resistively heated LTM, narrow bore (0.1 mm ID) non-polar capillary column heated at 2 °C s−1to 270 °C, provided fast GC elution with total run time of 3 min. The miniaturised ITMS was operated over a mass range of 40–500 Da. This provided approximation of near-real-time measurement of leaf volatiles released from the plant. For a second study, PGC–ITMS is employed to profile essential oils from experimental hybrid and commercial Humulus lupulus L. (hop) plant extracts in the laboratory, and contrasted with bench-top data. Results were processed by chromatographic fingerprinting using retention times, and MS fragmentation pattern similarity criteria. Unsupervised multivariate analysis was performed to improve specificity for classification of different plant volatiles, yielding loading variables corresponding to chemical differences of the analysed plants. The combination of HS-SPME and portable GC–ITMS proved effective for rapid chemical expression of the plant volatile genotype in the field.
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ChromatographiaVolume
82Issue
1Pagination
297 - 305Publisher
SpringerLocation
Cham, SwitzerlandPublisher DOI
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0009-5893eISSN
1612-1112Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer NatureUsage metrics
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