“…The most common form is tricin 7-O-glucopyranoside, which is found in taxonomically diverse species including sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum; Mabry et al, 1984), Phoenix hanceana (Lin et al, 2009), Sasa borealis (Park et al, 2007), Lygodium japonicum (Zhang et al, 2008a), and Ficus stenophylla (Zhang et al, 2008b). Our metabolite profiling of rice seedlings showed that tricin is mostly present as O-linked flavanolignans and their O-glycosides, which were previously identified in several rice varieties (Jeong et al, 2011(Jeong et al, , 2014Yang et al, 2013) and other grass species (Bouaziz et al, 2002;Wenzig et al, 2005). The different tricin-type flavanolignans were reported to exhibit a range of health-beneficial properties, such as antioxidation, antiinflammation, cardiovascular protection, and induction of tumor cell apoptosis (Chang et al, 2010;Jeong et al, 2011;Mohanlal et al, 2011Mohanlal et al, , 2013.…”