Quality control method based on quartz crystal microbalance and WGA for flour milled from germinated wheat
The flour obtained from germinated wheat has a low quality and may be identified by its increased content of a specific marker: a toxic lectin named wheat germ agglutinin (WGA). Quartz crystal microbalance was used to study the lectin-carbohydrate bioaffinity interactions. Sensors for two plant lectins: Concanavalin A (Con A) and WGA were obtained by immobilizing glucose on gold coated piezoelectric quartz crystals via thiol bonds. The limit of detection
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