A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE INORGANIC NUTRIENTS IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF ZEA MAYS L. USING INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY

S Qamar, M Aslam, F Huyop, M Javed
2017 Plant Sci   unpublished
Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) was used in this study to perform a quantitative elemental analysis in order to compare the inorganic nutrients in commercial white and noncommercial yellow maize flours. ICP-MS measurements reveals that both white and yellow maize flours contains 20 different elements including toxic elements (Pb, Cd, As, Ni, Cr, Sr, U), essential elements (Ca, Co, Se, Zn, Cu, Fe, Mn, Mo) and probably essential elements (Mg, K, Na, Ba, Al) and their
more » ... ding nutrients values were compared in detail. The ICP-MS analysis revealed that inorganic elements such as Al, As,
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