Huang C, Gao M, Luo H, Xu Y. Indophenol Blue Colorimetric Method to Determine Grain Protein Content of Cereal Plants.
Methods Mol Biol 2024;
2787:257-263. [PMID:
38656495 DOI:
10.1007/978-1-0716-3778-4_17]
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Abstract
Here, we propose a method to convert the organic nitrogen in maize kernels into ammonia in solution and then chlorinate it to prepare monochloride salts, which can form an oxidatively coupled blue-green mixture with sodium salicylate and sodium dichloroisocyanurate. The concentration of ammonium ions in the blue-green mixture can then be determined in the solution, and finally the protein content in maize kernels can be calculated from the nitrogen content.
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