In the laboratory of the Biotechnical Faculty at the University of Ljubljana, our colleague, Ph.D. Maja Mikulič Petkovšek and PhD student Mirela Uzelac created new extracts and fractions of invasive plant species: Black locust, Tree of heaven, Jerusalem artichoke and Canadian goldenrod.
The obtained extracts and fractions were analyzed by LC-MS methods in order to find out exactly which compounds the extracts of each species consist of.
After the analysis, the obtained data were integrated and analyzed, followed by statistical processing. There were a lot of peaks, which means that our invasives are rich in secondary metabolites!
