Journal of Phytology ● Vol 8 ● 2016 49 INTRODUCTION Fagopyrum tataricum (tartary buckwheat) - A dicot pseudocereal belongs to family Polygonaceae is a potential candidate due to its high neutraceutical properties. Currently, buckwheat sprouts are used as a noval source of vegetables due to the presence of enormous neutraceutical properties (Liu et al., 2008). In China, it is an old saying “People who love buckwheat live long” and “People who love buckwheat are healthy.” In India, the flour prepared from buckwheat groats named as “kuttu ka atta” and is consumed by Hindus on particular fasting days, especially during “Navaratri, Ekadashi, Janamashthami, and Maha-Shivaratri.” The studies on animal and humans have shown several health benefits, and thus it is being promoted as the functional food. It is the only pseudocereal that contains a well-known glycoside “rutin” (Jiang et al., 2007). Rutin is known to serve as antihypertensive, anti-inflammatory, anti- carcinogenic, and vasoconstrictive (Landberg et al., 2011; Sharma et al., 2013). Buckwheat flour is gluten- free and is thus an important ingredient in diets or food products for people suffering from coeliac disease (Alvarez-Jubete et al., 2010). Coeliac disease (also known as gluten-sensitive enteropathy) is a genetically determined disease of the small intestine linked with gluten intolerance. The buckwheat products are being produced for their medicinal properties such as “leaves” contain “antioxidants” is used for making tea, “groats” contain “fagopyritols” are used in soap industry. Other essential bioactive constituents of tartary buckwheat are phenols, fagopyrins, fagopyritols, resistant starch, dietary fiber, vitamins and lignans (Farooq et al., 2015). Isolation and structural analysis of these secondary metabolites from medicinal plants is a main thrust of natural product chemistry to identify and evaluate their therapeutic potential. Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is a robust approach for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of metabolites of plant origin (Iordache et al., 2009). In view of the above facts, the current study was focused to evaluate metabolite profiling by GC-MS to identify and quantify the phyto-chemotypes present in the extract of tartary buckwheat. Metabolite profling of tartary buckwheat - An underutilized neutraceutical crop of Kashmir Himalaya Tanveer Bilal Pirzadah 1 , Bisma Malik 1 , Inayatullah Tahir 2 , Reiaz Ul Rehman 1 * 1 Department of Bioresources, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, 2 Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India Received: Received: 18-08-2016 Accepted: Accepted: 06-12-2016 Published: Published: 15-12-2016 *Address for *Address for correspondence: correspondence: Dr. Reiaz Ul Rehman, Department of Bioresources, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Tel.: +91-9796546222. E-mail: reiazrehman@ yahoo.in ABSTRACT The aim of the present study was to explore the possible metabolites in the methanolic extract of root, stem, groat, and hull of the neutraceutical crop, Fagopyrum tataricum using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) technique. From GC-MS metabolite profiling, over 90 different metabolites were identified among root, stem, groat, and hull extract. The most prevailing compounds were 3, 3’, 4’, 5, 7-pentahydroflavone-3- rhamnoglucoside (71.94%) in groat, 9, 12-octadecadienoic acid (49.38%) in root, 6-octadecanoic acid, a steric acid (70.46%) in hull and Cis-9-hexadecanal (13.38%) in stem. Present investigation reveals that F. tataricum is an excellent source of many metabolites such as fatty acids, hydrocarbons, steroids, terpenoids, esters, organic acids, and aldehydes with excellent pharmaceutical properties. These results suggest that tartary buckwheat could be a promising alternative in the functional food sector and neutraceutical to improve social well-being and diminish malnutrition. KEY WORDS: Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, metabolite profiling, tartary buckwheat Original Article Journal of Phytology 2016, 8: 49-54 http://scienceflora.org/journals/index.php/jp/ doi: 10.19071/jp.2016.v8.3106