Monitoring of Phosphorus Oxide Ion for Analytical Speciation of Phosphite and Phosphate in Transgenic Plants by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

作者：Torres Elguera Julio Cesar; Yanez Barrientos Eunice; Wrobel Katarzyna; Wrobel Kazimierz

来源：Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2013, 61(27): 6622-6628.

DOI：10.1021/jf4012278

• phosphite
• analytical speciation
• HPLC
• ICP-MS
• transgenic plants

Large amounts of phosphate fertilizers utilized in agriculture and their relatively poor efficiency are of high ecological and economic concern. Therefore, transgenic plants capable of metabolizing phosphite are being engineered. In support of this biotechnological task, analytical speciation of phosphorus in biological tissues is required. In this study, plant extracts were analyzed by liquid chromatography-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, at m/z of elemental phosphorus and phosphorus oxide ions. Using polymeric-based anion exchange column and millimolar concentration of nitric acid in potassium phthalate mobile phase (pH 2.5), phosphite and phosphate ions were baseline resolved with retention times 6.95 +/- 0.03 and 7.90 +/- 0.03 min and with a total chromatographic run time 10 min. The detection limits were 1.58 and 1.74 mu g P L-1 at m/z 47, as compared to 2.18 and 2.04 mu g P L-1 at m/z 31, respectively. The results obtained in real world samples for the two detection modes were in good agreement, yet signal acquisition at m/z 47 enabled better precision without collision/reaction cell (RSD below 2%) as compared to RSD around 4% obtained at m/z 31 using He-pressurized cell (3.5 mL min(-1))

• 出版日期2013-7-10