TY - BOOK AU - Barkawi,L.S. AU - Tam,Y.-Y. AU - Tillman,J.A. AU - Normanly,J. AU - Cohen,J.D. TI - A high-throughput method for the quantitative analysis of auxins KW - ACCURACY KW - ARTICLE KW - AUTOMATION KW - CONTROLLED STUDY KW - DATA ANALYSIS KW - DERIVATIZATION KW - HARVESTING KW - HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING KW - HORMONE DETERMINATION KW - ISOTOPE DILUTION ASSAY KW - MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY KW - NONHUMAN KW - PLANT TISSUE KW - PRIORITY JOURNAL KW - PROTEIN PROCESSING KW - QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS KW - ROBOTICS KW - SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION N2 - Auxin measurements in plants are critical to understanding both auxin signaling and metabolic homeostasis. The most abundant natural auxin is indole-3-acetic acid (IAA). This protocol is for the precise, high-throughput determination of free IAA in plant tissue by isotope dilution analysis using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The steps described are as follows: harvesting of plant material; amino and polymethylmethacrylate solid-phase purification followed by derivatization with diazomethane (either manual or robotic); GC-MS analysis; and data analysis. [13 C 6]IAA is the standard used. The amount of tissue required is relatively small (25 mg of fresh weight)and one can process more than 500 samples per week using an automated system. To extract eight samples, this procedure takes ~3 h, whether performed manually or robotically. For processing more than eight samples, robotic extraction becomes substantially more time efficient, saving at least 0.5 h per additional batch of eight samples UR - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LdnqUeHfukFb8Gj-OcxUJ5K7BUnUuUEs/view?usp=drivesdk ER -