Improving the extraction and purification of leaf and phloem sugars for oxygen isotope analyses.

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry : RCM
Marco M LehmannAnsgar Kahmen

Abstract

The oxygen isotopic composition (here shown as the δ18 O value) of soluble sugars in leaves and phloem tissue holds valuable information about plant functions in response to climatic changes. However, δ18 O analysis of sugars is prone to error, and thoroughly tested methods are lacking. We performed three experiments to test if sample preparation modifies the δ18 O values of sugars. In experiment 1, we tested the effects of oven-drying versus freeze-drying, whereas in experiment 2 we focused on the extraction and purification of leaf sugars. In experiment 3, we investigated the exudation and purification of twig phloem sugars as a function of exudation time and different ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) exudation media. Freeze-drying produced more consistent δ18 O values than oven-drying for sucrose but not for phloem sugars. The extraction and purification of leaf sugars can be performed without a significant modification of their δ18 O values; yet the purified leaf and phloem sugars possessed higher δ18 O values than the fraction of water-soluble compounds. Moreover, the exudation time significantly modulated the δ18 O values of phloem sugars, which is probably related to changes in the sugar composition. The addition o...Continue Reading

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