Abstract
Metabolic fingerprints were obtained from
unfractionated Pharbitis nil leaf sap samples by direct
infusion into an electrospray ionization mass
spectrometer. Analyses took less than 30 s per sample
and yielded complex mass spectra. Various chemometric
methods, including discriminant function analysis and
the machine-learning methods of artificial neural
networks and genetic programming, could discriminate
the metabolic fingerprints of plants subjected to
different photoperiod treatments. This rapid automated
analytical procedure could find use in a variety of
phytochemical applications requiring high sample
throughput.
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