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Using Capillary Electrophoresis to Quantify Organic Acids from Plant Tissue: A Test Case Examining Coffea arabica Seeds
Published on: November 12, 2016
Determination of abscisic acid by capillary electrophoresis with laser-induced fluorescence detection
1Key Laboratory of MOE for Plant Developmental Biology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, PR China.
Abstract:
A novel method based on capillary electrophoresis coupled to laser-induced fluorescence detection (CE-LIF) was developed for the determination of abscisic acid (ABA), which is an essential phytohormone during plant growth and development. ABA was labeled with 8-aminopyrene-1,3,6-trisulfonate via reductive amination in presence of acetic acid and sodium cyanoborohydride. The derivatization yield was maximized by optimizing several derivatization parameters including derivatization reagent concentration, reaction temperature and time. The conjugate was separated and quantitated by CE-LIF. The linearity of ABA was determined in the range from 0.1 to 10 micromol l(-1) with a correlation of 0.9979. The derivatization limit of detection for ABA was found to be 56 fmol (corresponding to the concentration of 2.8 x 10(-8) mol l(-1)). The detection limit for ABA was 5.5 amol for an injection volume of 5 nl. As a preliminary application, the proposed method was successfully applied to determining trace amount of ABA in the crude extracts of tobacco without extra purification and enrichment procedure and showed a better selectivity and sensitivity than those conventional methods used in determination of ABA.
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