TY  - JOUR
A1  - Borisjuk, Ljudmilla
A1  - Rolletschek, Hardy
A1  - Fuchs, Johannes
A1  - Melkus, Gerd
A1  - Neuberger, Thomas
T1  - Low and High Field Magnetic Resonance for \(in\) \(Vivo\) Analysis of Seeds
JF  - Materials
N2  - Low field NMR has been successfully used for the evaluation of seed composition and quality, but largely only in crop species. We show here that 1.5T NMR provides a reliable means for analysing the seed lipid fraction present in a wide range of species, where both the seed size and lipid concentration differed by >10 fold. Little use of high field NMR has been made in seed research to date, even though it potentially offers many opportunities for studying seed development, metabolism and storage. Here we demonstrate how 17.5T and 20T NMR can be applied to image seed structure, and analyse lipid and metabolite distribution. We suggest that further technical developments in NMR/MRI will facilitate significant advances in our understanding of seed biology.
KW  - Time-domain NMR
KW  - H-1-NMR spectroscopy
KW  - Soybean seeds
KW  - Human brain
KW  - Oil
KW  - Storage
KW  - Plants
KW  - Deterioration
KW  - Transport
KW  - Gradients
KW  - NMR
KW  - MRI
KW  - seed quality
KW  - Crop seed
KW  - lipid imaging
KW  - sucrose allocation
KW  - seed aging
KW  - (13)C
Y1  - 2011
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-140910
VL  - 4
IS  - 8
ER  -