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. 1982 Apr;69(4):950–956. doi: 10.1104/pp.69.4.950

Estimation of Free, Conjugated, and Diffusible Indole-3-acetic Acid in Etiolated Maize Shoots by the Indolo-α-pyrone Fluorescence Method

Moritoshi Iino 1,1, Denis J Carr 1
PMCID: PMC426334  PMID: 16662325

Abstract

Procedures for estimating free indoleacetic acid (IAA extracted from tissue homogenates by aqueous acetone), conjugated IAA (extracted by aqueous acetone and hydrolyzed by 1 n KOH), and diffusible IAA (diffused from the excised tissue into water), in shoots of etiolated 3-day-old maize (Zea mays L. cv. GH 390) seedlings are described, the indolo-α-pyrone fluorescence method being used to assay IAA. The reliability of the procedure is shown by comparative IAA determinations of the extracts using the gas chromatography-mass spectrometry method in which the methyl ester, heptafluorobutyryl derivative of IAA is assayed using the selected-ion-monitoring technique with deuterated IAA as an internal standard. A 3-millimeter-long coleoptile tip, a coleoptile with its included leaves and nodal region (whole coleoptile), and a mesocotyl each contains 0.2, 1.7, and 1.5 nanograms of free IAA, respectively. The whole coleoptile and the mesocotyl contain slightly less conjugated IAA than their content of free IAA. IAA diffuses from the coleoptile tip at the rate of 1.0 nanograms per tip per hour; from the base of the whole coleoptile and a set of leaves excised from a coleoptile, IAA diffuses at the rate of 0.62 and 0.17 nanogram per plant part per hour, respectively. The data obtained support the classical assumption that the coleoptile tip produces IAA. It is also suggested that some IAA is decomposed during its downward transport in the coleoptile.

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