Shri AMM Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre, Taramani, Chennai-600 113, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: anithamcrc@gmail.com
Online published on 7 February, 2013.
In this study, intracellular and extracellular phytohormone production was investigated in the methylotroph MSF34. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of these hormones was done using specific bioassays and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) technique respectively. Our findings showed that the MSF34 bacteria used in this study synthesized the auxin Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) and Abscisic acid (ABA). However IAA was found only in microbial spent medium whereas ABA was present in the cell extracts.
Extracellular, HPLC, intracellular, methylotrophs, hormone
