[EN] Introduction Most aerial plant organs are covered by a cuticle, which largely consists of cutin and wax. Cuticular waxes are mixtures of dozens of compounds, mostly very-long-chain aliphatics that are easily extracted ...
Palomino-Schätzlein, Martina; Escrig Aparici, Pablo Vicente; Boira Tortajada, Herminio; Primo Millo, Jaime; Pineda-Lucena, Antonio; Cabedo Escrig, Nuria(American Chemical Society, 2011-10-09)
13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy was explored as a simple and efficient technique for the quantitative analysis of nonpolar metabolites in plants. The method was first optimized with a mixture of known ...