Research into plant biochemistry is underpinned by accurate analysis of metabolites whether in plant extracts or in biochemical assays. In our research programmes this is achieved by mass and NMR spectroscopy. A state-of the-art facility including robotic sample preparation, GC-MS, HPLC-MS and 400MHz FT-NMR instrumentation is integrated into the group and provides support for many RRes projects and also is involved in large-scale national projects on plant metabolomics.

Research Leaders:

• Prof Mike Beale

Analytical staff:

• Nathan Hawkins - mass spectrometry
• Jane Ward - NMR

Instrumentation:

• Micromass GCT gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS)
• Micromass Trio-2 mass spectrometer
• Thermoquest HPLC-diode array-LCQ mass spectrometer
• Micromass Q-TOF mass spectrometer
• Bruker Avance 400 FT NMR with BACS autosampler
• Aspec robotic solid phase extraction system