Determination of UDP-Glucose and UDP-Galactose in Maize by Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography and Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Table 5

Comparison of different analytical methods for the determination of UDP-galactose and UDP-glucose in plant samples.

Sample	Analyte	Instrument technique	Limit of detection	Reference
Arabidopsis thaliana	UDP-glucose/UDP-galactose	HPLC-MS	70 nmol·L^−1	[16]
Wheat	UDP-glucose	LC-ESI-MS/MS	1 ng·mL^−1	[17]
Tobacco	UDP-glucose	LC-ESI-MS	5 nmol·L^−1	[26]
Maize	UDP-glucose/UDP-galactose	UPLC-ESI-MS/MS	0.5 ng·mL^−1/0.7 ng·mL^−1	This work