“…In general, the signal suppression effect stems from the compete co-eluting compounds with target compounds in the ionization processes or reduced radius of droplets (Hajslová & Zrostlíková, 2003). Co-eluting compounds, including starch, protein and lipids, pigments, greases, saccharides, starch, total phenolic and so on, possibly exist in rice plants, brown rice and rice hull matrices (Rizov & Doulis, 2000;Salam, Devi, Salam, & Singh, 2017;Wang, Huang, Liu, & Wang, 2009;Wang, Zhang, Lu, Kuang, & Li, 2002;Zhou, Robards, Helliwell, & Blanchard, 2010). Therefore, matrix-matched calibrations curves were used for quantitative analysis to effectively avoid the quantitative inaccuracy problem caused by the matrix effect in this study.…”