PMID- 22363931 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120726 LR - 20120305 IS - 1364-5528 (Electronic) IS - 0003-2654 (Linking) VI - 137 IP - 7 DP - 2012 Apr 7 TI - Analysis of plant hormones by microemulsion electrokinetic capillary chromatography coupled with on-line large volume sample stacking. PG - 1723-9 LID - 10.1039/c2an16313f [doi] AB - A novel method of microemulsion electrokinetic capillary chromatography (MEEKC) coupled with on-line large volume sample stacking was developed for the analysis of six plant hormones including indole-3-acetic acid, indole-3-butyric acid, indole-3-propionic acid, 1-naphthaleneacetic acid, abscisic acid and salicylic acid. Baseline separation of six plant hormones was achieved within 10 min by using the microemulsion background electrolyte containing a 97.2% (w/w) 10 mM borate buffer at pH 9.2, 1.0% (w/w) ethyl acetate as oil droplets, 0.6% (w/w) sodium dodecyl sulphate as surfactant and 1.2% (w/w) 1-butanol as cosurfactant. In addition, an on-line concentration method based on a large volume sample stacking technique and multiple wavelength detection was adopted for improving the detection sensitivity in order to determine trace level hormones in a real sample. The optimal method provided about 50-100 fold increase in detection sensitivity compared with a single MEEKC method, and the detection limits (S/N = 3) were between 0.005 and 0.02 mug mL(-1). The proposed method was simple, rapid and sensitive and could be applied to the determination of six plant hormones in spiked water samples, tobacco leaves and 1-naphthylacetic acid in leaf fertilizer. The recoveries ranged from 76.0% to 119.1%, and good reproducibilities were obtained with relative standard deviations (RSDs) less than 6.6%. FAU - Chen, Zongbao AU - Chen Z AD - Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Analysis and Detection for Food Safety, Department of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China. FAU - Lin, Zian AU - Lin Z FAU - Zhang, Lin AU - Zhang L FAU - Cai, Yan AU - Cai Y FAU - Zhang, Lan AU - Zhang L LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20120223 PL - England TA - Analyst JT - The Analyst JID - 0372652 RN - 0 (Plant Growth Regulators) SB - IM MH - Chemistry Techniques, Analytical/*methods MH - *Chromatography, Micellar Electrokinetic Capillary MH - Molecular Structure MH - Plant Growth Regulators/*analysis/chemistry EDAT- 2012/03/01 06:00 MHDA- 2012/07/27 06:00 CRDT- 2012/02/25 06:00 PHST- 2012/02/25 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/03/01 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/07/27 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1039/c2an16313f [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Analyst. 2012 Apr 7;137(7):1723-9. doi: 10.1039/c2an16313f. Epub 2012 Feb 23.