Ploidy variation of pronamide-treated maize calli during long term culture |
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Authors: | V H Beaumont J M Widholm |
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Institution: | (1) University of Illinois, Department of Agronomy, Plant and Animal Biotechnology Laboratory, 1201 W. Gregory, 61801 Urbana, IL, USA;(2) Present address: Semences Cargill, BP 21, 40305 Peyrehorade Cedex, France |
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Abstract: | Summary Anther-derived calli of corn were treated with 10 M pronamide for 2, 3 and 4 days. The ploidy level of the calli was then evaluated using flow cytometry, at different times after the treatment. Untreated haploid calli did not change in ploidy level for 97 days but by 466 days, there were up to 50% diploid or higher ploidy cells thus showing that spontaneous doubling may occur during corn calli subculture with this genotype. Pronamide treatment did increase the percentage of diploid and tetraploid cells and by 466 days, all of the lines showed an additional change toward higher ploidy levels. This change may be due to spontaneous chromosome doubling or to differential cell cycle times of cells with different ploidy levels. The ploidy level of plants regenerated from the cultures was determined by counting the guard cell chloroplast numbers and the correlation with the ploidy level of the cultures was r2=0.84. These studies show that pronamide treatments can increase haploid maize callus chromosome numbers and that spontaneous chromosome doubling can occur with time in maize callus. |
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Keywords: | chromosome doubling Zea mays tissue culture |
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