Identification of gibberellin A20, abscisic acid, and phaseic acid from flowering Bryophyllum daigremontianum by combined gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

Planta ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Gaskin ◽  
J. MacMillan ◽  
J. A. D. Zeevaart
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Gas Chromatography ◽  
Abscisic Acid ◽  
Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Phaseic Acid ◽  
Chromatography Mass Spectrometry

Endogenous Biosynthetic Precursors of (+)-Abscisic Acid. II. Incorporation of Isotopes From ( Plus or Minus )-[2H]Abscisic Aldehyde, 18O2 and H218O

1994 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 345 ◽  
Author(s):  
AG Netting ◽  
BV Milborrow
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Gas Chromatography ◽  
Abscisic Acid ◽  
Enzyme System ◽  
Negative Ion ◽  
Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Chromatography Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Negative Ion Chemical Ionisation ◽  
Endogenous Precursor ◽  
Chemical Ionisation

Tomato shoots that had been (a) fed (�)-[2H9]abscisic aldehyde via the xylem or (b) fed H218O together with (�)-[2H9]abscisic aldehyde via the xylem or (c) exposed to 18O2 and fed (�)-[2H9]abscisic aldehyde, were then wilted. The abscisic acid present was isolated, methylated and resolved into (+)- and (-)- methyl abscisate. These methyl abscisate samples were then examined by negative ion chemical ionisation (methane) gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. The undeuteriated (+)-abscisic acid contained no 180 from H218O but did contain one 18O from 18O2. No 18O from either of these sources was present in the undeuteriated (-)-abscisic acid. It was not possible to discount the xanthophyll hypothesis for the origin of stress-induced abscisic acid on the basis of these experiments. Both (+)- and (-)- multiply deuteriated abscisic acid contained one and two 18O atoms from H218O but none from 18O2. It is postulated that this multiply deuteriated (�)-abscisic acid is formed by a separate enzyme system from that which forms endogenous stress-induced (+)-abscisic acid. On the basis of the low incor- poration of abscisic aldehyde into abscisic acid, it is suggested that the endogenous precursor of stress- induced abscisic acid is an as yet unidentified structure and that abscisic aldehyde competes with it.

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