Isolation, detection, and quantification of hydrolyzable tannins of the biosynthetic pathway by liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry.

This study has provided a compound-specific MRM method for the detection and quantification of representative HTs from diverse phytochemical samples that can thus be used in large-scale screening tests to pinpoint the major biosynthetic branches of HTs utilized by plants to accumulate specific types of HTs.