“…The most commonly used methods for ABA quantification are by HPLC-UV, followed by gas liquid chromatography (GLC) These techniques require large quantities of tissue, as well as rigorous clean-up procedures to ensure elimination of contaminants that may cochromatograph with ABA [16]. The introduction of mAb as reagents for analyses of plant hormones [26] has provided attractive alternatives to the traditional assays of ABA, which minimize the need for purification and allow rapid analysis of many samples with minimal costs [4,8,9,14,15,24,251. While the list of immunoassays being reported for ABA analysis in leaves and other tissues is increasing rapidly [2, 4, 8, 9, 14, 16, 19, 24, 251, there are as yet only a few reports of new monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to ABA [15,17,18,21,221.…”