Physiologia Plantarum 138: 493–502. 2010 Copyright © Physiologia Plantarum 2009, ISSN 0031-9317 A fluorometer-based method for monitoring oxidation of redox-sensitive GFP (roGFP) during development and extended dark stress Shilo Rosenwassera,b, Ilona Rota, Andreas J. Meyerc, Lewis Feldmand,KeniJiangd and Haya Friedmana,∗ aDepartment of Postharvest Science of Fresh Produce, ARO, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel bRobert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Kennedy-Leigh Centre for Horticultural Research, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel cHeidelberg Institute for Plant Science (HIP), Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 360, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany dDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, 111 Koshland Hall, Berkeley, California 94720-3102, USA Correspondence Redox-sensitive GFP (roGFP) localized to different compartments has been *Corresponding author, shown to be suitable for determination of redox potentials in plants via e-mail:
[email protected] imaging. Long-term measurements bring out the need for analyzing a large Received 30 June 2009; number of samples which are averaged over a large population of cells. revised 18 October 2009 Because this goal is too tedious to be achieved by confocal imaging, we have examined the possibility of using a fluorometer to monitor changes in roGFP doi:10.1111/j.1399-3054.2009.01334.x localized to different subcellular compartments during development and dark- induced senescence. The degree of oxidations determined by a fluorometer for different probes was similar to values obtained by confocal image analysis. Comparison of young and old leaves indicated that in younger cells higher levels of H2O2 were required to achieve full roGFP oxidation, a parameter which is necessary for calculation of the degree of oxidation of the probe and the actual redox potential.