Direct and Rapid Analysis of Anthocyanin Pigment in Petunia Flower Petals Using DPiMS™-8060

Introduction

In recent years, foods with function claims and functional plants are gaining great attention in the fields of food and agriculture in terms of preventing illnesses and improving health. It is expected that they will grow into a large industry. As technological advances are being made daily to add high functions and high added values to plants, needs are growing for the establishment of technologies for measuring the substances that contribute to the functions and added values of developed and produced functional plants from the viewpoint of controlling the quality of such products. With the intent to develop a rapid and simple method for measuring the substances which cause the high functions and values that are added to functional plants, this article introduces a pretreatment-free analysis method of anthocyanin pigment that exists locally in petunia flower petals. The method uses the newly developed DPiMS- 8060 mass spectrometer which combines probe electrospray ionization (PESI), a novel ionization method, with tandem mass spectrometry.

January 16, 2019 GMT