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From: Earliest tea as evidence for one branch of the Silk Road across the Tibetan Plateau

Figure 3

Extracted ion chromatograms and exact mass spectra for theanine from SRM theanine and archeological samples.

(a) Ion chromatogram of SRM theanine at a 1.54 min retention time. (b) Exact mass spectra at m/z 175.1082 ([M + H] + ) for SRM theanine [γ-glutamylethylamide]. (c) Extracted ion chromatogram of Sample DK15-1, uniform with SRM theanine. (d) Exact mass spectra of theanine for Sample DK15-1. (e) Extracted ion chromatogram of Sample XZ-1, indicating theanine. (f) Exact mass spectrometry of theanine for Sample XZ-1.

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