title: 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.
abstract: 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 μg P L(-1) at m/z 47, as compared to 2.18 and 2.04 μg 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)).
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Guanajuato , L. de Retana 5, 36000 Guanajuato, Mexico.
authors.forename: Julio Cesar
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Torres Elguera
authors.forename: Eunice
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yañez Barrientos
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wrobel
authors.forename: Kazimierz
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wrobel
mesh_terms: D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods*; D010087:Oxides / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D010710:Phosphates / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D017905:Phosphites / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D010758:Phosphorus / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D010087:Oxides; D010710:Phosphates; D017905:Phosphites; D010758:Phosphorus