Climate change is impacting food and beverage crops around the world with implications for
environmental and human well-being. While numerous studies have examined climate …

Multidimensional gas chromatography (MDGC) offers excellent separation efficiency that
serves advanced characterisation of volatiles and semi-volatiles in food samples. An …

(GC) methods is an indispensable tool in the analytical chemist's tool box. A myriad of fields
of study rely upon the application of GC methods to address an ever growing demand to …

The tea plant (Camellia sinensis) presents an excellent system to study evolution and
diversification of the numerous classes, types and variable contents of specialized …

Climate change is impacting the sustainability of food systems through shifts in natural and
human dimensions of agroecosystems that influence farmer livelihoods, consumer choices …

Background Pesticide residue and its poor utilization remains problematic in agricultural
development. To address the issue, a nano-pesticide has been developed by incorporating …

Climate effects on crop quality at the molecular level are not well-understood. Gas and liquid
chromatography–mass spectrometry were used to measure changes of hundreds of …

The United States (US) consumed over 80 billion servings of tea, approximately 3.8 billion
gallons, in the year of 2018. With the vast majority of tea demand being met by importation …

Farmers in China's tea-growing regions report that monsoon dynamics and other weather
factors are changing and that this is affecting tea harvest decisions. To assess the effect of …

Insect herbivores have dramatic effects on the chemical composition of plants. Many of these
induced metabolites contribute to the quality (eg, flavor, human health benefits) of specialty …