Phytohormones were quantified as described in Geuss et al. (2018) (link) and see Supplementary Data Sheet S1 and Supplementary Table S1 for details on mass spectrometry. In brief, 100–110 mg of fresh leaf material (n = 4 samples/population/treatment) were ground and extracted two times with 1.0 ml ethyl acetate. Deuterated internal standards were included for salicylic acid (SA; OlChemIm Ltd., Olomouc, Czechia), abscisic acid (ABA; OlChemIm Ltd.), jasmonic acid (JA; Purity Compounds Standards GmbH, Cunnersdorf, Germany) and jasmonic acid-isoleucine (JA-Ile; HPC Standards GmbH). Extracts were vacuum-dried and re-eluted in 0.4 ml 70% MeOH containing 0.1% formic acid (v/v). Phytohormones were separated on a UPLC C18 column in a water® and MeOH gradient (ACQUITY UPLC BEH-C18, 50 × 2.1 mm, particle size 1.7 μm), fragmented and detected in an ESI-MS/MS-qTOF detector (Synapt G2-S HDMS; Waters®, Milford, MA, United States) and quantified according to the respective internal standard.
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