“…It has long been studied as an extractable portion of various grasses and cereals (family Poaceae), such as wheat, bamboo, oat, maize and rice (Markley and Bailey, ; Vogel et al ., ; Harborne and Hall, ). The extractable tricin can occur in either free form (Nakano et al ., ) or in various conjugated forms, such as tricin‐glycosides (Duarte‐Almeida et al ., ; Van Hoyweghen et al ., ; Bottcher et al ., ), tricin‐lignans (Bouaziz et al ., ; Wenzig et al ., ) and (tricin‐glycoside)‐lignans (Bottcher et al ., ; Lee et al ., ), as shown in Figure . As we recently reported, not all of the tricin‐lignans may be such (Lan et al ., ); as the ones we extracted for metabolite profiling displayed no optical activity and were obviously the result of a remarkable variety of combinatorial coupling products from not just the monolignols but the monolignol acetate and p ‐coumarate conjugates, we contended that these are incipient tricin‐lignins or tricin‐(oligo)lignols or, more generally, flavonolignins or flavonolignols (Lan et al ., ).…”