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A Rapid Method for Targeted and Untargeted Alkaloid Screening
23 Mar 2016
Lynsey Forsyth
Post Doc / Research Fellow
Editorial article
SelectScience® spoke to leading scientists at RAFA 2015 about their research, and the technology they are using. Watch the video to hear Dr Tiziana Nardin, Food Technologist at the Edmund Mach Foundation of San Michele, present her poster on analytical methods for alkaloid analysis.
Hear how targeted and non-targeted alkaloid methods enabled more than 120 different alkaloid-containing plants to be analyzed. A SPE on-line preparative system, coupled to UHPLC high-resolution mass spectrometry, analysis was optimized for fast and efficient identification of alkaloids.
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