Characterization of volatiles Tribolium castaneum (H.) in flour using solid phase microextraction-gas chromatography mass spectrometry (SPME-GCMS)

Niu, Y., Hardy, G., Agarwal, M.ORCID: 0000-0002-8781-3850, Hua, L. and Ren, Y. (2016) Characterization of volatiles Tribolium castaneum (H.) in flour using solid phase microextraction-gas chromatography mass spectrometry (SPME-GCMS). Food Science and Human Wellness, 5 (1). pp. 24-29.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to identify volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from flour, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) and flour infested by T. castaneum separately, to confirm the difference of healthy flour and flour infested by T. castaneum and to explore the new technique to diagnose stored flour's quality by its VOCs change. Headspace-solid phase microextraction (HS-SPME) coupled with gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) were used to detect the VOCs of three different samples. Totally, 71 different compounds were identified in flour, T. castaneum and T. castaneum infested flour. Therefore, 27 VOCs were identified from flour alone, 32 VOCs from T. castaneum and 39 VOCs from T. castaneum infested flour. The compound 2-ethyl-2,5-cyclohexadiene-1,4-dione is only found in T. castaneum infested flour. This suggests that 2-ethyl-2,5-cyclohexadiene-1,4-dione can be a useful VOC for detecting T. castaneum in flour.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Murdoch Affiliation(s):	School of Veterinary and Life Sciences
Publisher:	Elsevier BV
URI:	http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/30590

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