被子植物胚柄研究进展

胚柄在胚胎发育过程中是一个暂时性的结构, 但却起着为胚体提供营养和生长调节因子的作用。相对胚体而言, 胚柄具有细胞类型单一、结构相对独立及发育时间短等特点, 其在胚胎发育的基因调控和细胞命运决定研究中具有独特的优势。该文从胚柄的形成及特点、胚柄在胚胎发育中的作用、信号传递系统对胚柄的影响以及与胚柄相关基因的功能等方面进行综述, 以期为研究胚柄在胚胎发育过程中所起的作用以及胚柄的命运决定提供参考信息。     

烟草与蓝猪耳胚胎发生中细胞表面三种凝集素受体的动态分布

以异硫氰酸甲酯(FITC)标记的三种凝集素(伴刀豆凝集素, 麦芽凝集素和大豆凝集素)为荧光探针,对烟草及蓝猪耳各发育时期胚细胞表面的凝集素受体进行了定位.结果显示胚柄基部荧光信号最强,沿胚柄单列细胞向胚体方向渐次减弱.以后随着胚柄功能的逐渐丧失而改变.同时,三种凝集素受体集中分布于胚柄细胞间的分裂面;凝集素受体在原胚中分布的另一个特点是聚集于新形成的细胞壁上.随着胚胎发育至分化阶段,凝集素受体则主要分布在胚体细胞的外切向壁上;三种凝集素受体的动态分布显示了凝集素受体的分布与细胞分裂之间的密切关系及其调控胚胎发育的作用.     

白杄体细胞胚胎发生的细胞组织学和淀粉积累动态的研究

以白木千（ＰｉｃｅａｍｅｙｅｒｉＲｅｈｄ．ｅｔＷｉｌｓ．）的成熟种胚为外植体,诱导体细胞胚胎发生。整体染色封片和组织切片的观察结果表明,白木千体细胞胚起源于胚性愈伤组织的单个细胞。胚性细胞经过一次不均等分裂产生两个细胞,即胚细胞和胚柄细胞。然后依次经过胚性胚柄团、球形胚、心形胚及鱼雷形胚阶段,最后发育成具有子叶的成熟胚。通过ＰＡＳ反应研究后发现,在体细胞胚发育过程中,淀粉粒在胚性胚柄团时期开始积累,至心形胚时期达到积累高峰,且淀粉粒的分布主要集中于胚柄细胞、分裂旺盛的胚细胞、器官原基及其附近细胞。据此结果推测淀粉的消长与体细胞胚发生的能量供应有关。     

水稻愈伤组织内部胚性细胞的形成及发育

发育成胚状体的水稻愈伤组织表面胚性细胞, 在继代过程中被非胚性细胞旺盛的分裂所包围, 渐渐形成内部胚性细胞。其形态结构与表面胚性细胞相同, 但周围缺乏表面细胞下面的一层至几层含丰富的淀粉粒的细胞。内部胚性细胞形成团后先在以处形成突起, 产生根冠原, 逐渐形成根而突出愈伤组织。内部胚性细胞可向四周同时但不同步形成根冠原。未见芽或胚状体从内部胚性细胞产生。推测胚性愈伤组织失支胚胎发生能力及分化能力可能部分地与胚性细胞部分裂或分裂不旺盛、而非胚性细胞分裂旺盛从而使胚性细胞被包围、稀释有关。     

2，4-D诱导的花生体细胞胚发生的组织学研究

花生成熟胚胚叶在MS附加 2 0mg/L 2 ,4_D的培养基上诱导 2 0d后 ,转移至无激素培养基MS0 继续培养 ,可获高频体细胞胚发生。组织学观察表明 ,体细胞胚起源于胚叶上表皮及表皮下数层细胞 ,这些细胞脱分化形成细胞质浓厚、细胞核大的胚性细胞团 ,胚性细胞团继续分裂形成体细胞胚。体细胞胚的发育过程经历球形胚、心形胚、鱼雷胚、子叶胚四个时期     

2,4-D诱导的花生体细胞胚发生的组织学研究

花生成熟胚胚叶在佃附加20mg/L 2,4-D的培养基上诱导20d后,转移至无激素培养基MS0继续培养,可获高频体细胞胚发生。组织学观察表明,体细胞胚起源于胚叶上表皮及表皮下数层细胞,这些细胞脱分化形成细胞质浓厚、细胞核大的胚性细胞团,胚性细胞团继续分裂形成体细胞胚。体细胞胚的发育过程经历球形胚、心形胚、鱼雷胚、子叶胚四个时期。     

白Qian体细胞胚胎发生的细胞组织学和淀粉积累动态的研究

以白Ｑｉａｎ的成熟种胚为外植体,诱导体细胞胚胎发生。整体染色封片和组织切片的观察结果表明,白Ｑｉａｎ体细胞胚起源于胚性愈伤组织的单个细胞。胚性细胞经过一次不均等分裂产生两个细胞,即胚细胞和胚柄细胞。然后依次经过胚性胚柄团、球形胚、心形胚及鱼雷形胚阶段,最后发育成具有子叶的成熟胚。通过ＰＡＳ反应研究后发现,在体细胞胚发育过程中,淀粉粒在胚性胚柄团时期开始积累,至心形胚时期达到积累高峰,且淀粉粒的分布     

水稻愈伤组织内部胚性细胞的形成及发育

发育成胚状体的水稻愈伤组织表面胚性细胞,在继代过程中被非胚性细所包围,渐渐形成内部胚性细胞。共形态结构与表面胚性细胞相同,但周围缺乏表面细胞下面的一层至几层含丰富的淀粉粒的细胞,内部胚性细胞形成团后行然以外形成突起,产生根冠原,逐渐形成根而突出愈伤组织,内部胚性细胞可向四周同时但不同步形成根冠原,未见芽或胚状体从内部胚性细胞产生,推测胚性愈伤组织失支胚胎发生能力及分化能力可能部分与胚性细胞部分裂或分裂不旺盛、,而非胚性细胞分旺盛从而使胚性细胞被包围,。稀释有关。     

离体培养下大豆体细胞胚胎发生的组织学研究

大豆胚状体可以直接从未成熟的子叶表皮及表皮下面1—3层细胞发生。这些细胞经过脱分化后,首先形成细胞质浓厚、核大的胚的发生细胞,胚发生细胞再分裂形成胚性细胞团,胚性细胞团再继续分裂形成胚状体。胚状体的发育过程和合子胚一样,经过球形、心形,鱼雷期和子叶期等诸阶段发育成小植株。此外,在诱导胚状体发生过程中,还观察到另一值得注意的现象:在未成熟胚的子叶表皮下面1至较深处的数层细胞,也转变成分生状细胞团,这些分生状细胞团呈不规则状,从其起源看,可称它们为内生“胚状体”,这些内生“胚状体”培养至20天,即停止生长发育。     

大葱胚和胚乳的发育

观察了“章丘大葱”胚珠、胚囊的结构,胚及胚乳的发育。胚发育属紫菀型,经历球胚前的原胚、球胚、椭形胚、凹形胚、长棒形胚及弯形成熟胚等各期。宿存助细胞生存到球形胚期。胚乳发育属核型。球胚晚期,在胚褒珠孔端及合点端,胚乳开始细胞化。由于游离核之间出现了垂周壁,由一层胚乳游离核形成了一层无内切向壁的“开放细胞”。“开放细胞”行平周分裂而形成两层细胞,外层为完整细胞,内层为新的“开放细胞”。如此多次分裂,向心增生胚乳细胞,最后将中央细胞填满。初始的垂周壁来自于间期游离核之间的细胞板,非“自由生长壁”但又未见明显的成膜体。初始的平周壁是正常有丝分裂的胞质分裂的结果,与成膜体,细胞板有关。在球胚晚期,胚乳细胞化后,在中央液泡内观察到游离细胞。     

渗透剂对白刺花体细胞胚成熟及萌发的影响

该研究以蔗糖、麦芽糖、山梨醇及PEG(6000)为渗透剂,探讨了不同渗透剂对白刺花体细胞胚发育、胚成熟及萌发的影响。结果表明:白刺花下胚轴形成的胚性愈伤组织接种至MS+2,4-D 0.2 mg·L~(-1)+NAA 1.0 mg·L~(-1)+6-BA 2.0 mg·L~(-1)+TDZ 1.0 mg·L~(-1)+蔗糖40 g·L~(-1)+谷氨酰胺100 mg·L~(-1)+植物凝胶3g·L~(-1)的培养基上,体细胞胚发生率高达66. 21%,总胚数为79个; 7%蔗糖可使体细胞胚成熟率高达64.36%,同时也可提高多子叶畸形胚形成; 2%麦芽糖+2%山梨醇+4%蔗糖组合使体细胞胚成熟率最高达88.89%,畸形胚比例最低; 30 g·L~(-1)PEG培养时,体细胞成熟率最高,为82.35%;鱼雷期的体细胞胚最合适转接,可使体胚萌发率达90.58%,复合糖上培养得到的成熟体细胞胚生根率最高,为87.47%。这为实现白刺花体细胞胚育苗奠定了理论基础,并提供了可行的方案。     

Factors influencing somatic embryo maturation, high frequency germination and plantlet formation in Terminalia chebula Retz.

The factors influencing somatic embryo maturation, high frequency somatic embryo germination, and plantlet formation were studied in Terminalia chebula Retz. Maturation of somatic embryo were influenced by a number of factors such as in vitro culture passage, concentrations of sucrose, levels of abscisic acid (ABA), basal media and media additive combinations. Maximum frequency of somatic embryo maturation (57.22 ± 2.02), was obtained on MS medium supplemented with 50 g/l sucrose. Different factors such as strengths of MS nutrients, plant growth regulators, media additives and their combinations controlling somatic embryo germination and plantlet formation were studied. High frequency of germination and plantlet formation (58.80 ± 1.47) were achieved by subsequent subculture of mature somatic embryos on MS medium containing 30 g/l sucrose and 0.5 mg/l benzyladenine (BA). However, although duration of in vitro passage of the callus tissue was critical, contribution of the combinations of plant growth regulators and media additives showed nugatory effect on somatic embryo maturation and germination as evident from variable responses.     

Characterization of somatic embryo attached structures in Feijoa sellowiana Berg. (Myrtaceae)

The presence of an attached organ to somatic embryos of angiosperms connecting the embryo to the supporting tissue has been a subject of controversy. This study shows that 67% of the morphologically normal somatic embryos of Feijoa sellowiana possess this type of organ and that its formation was not affected by culture media composition. Histological and ultrastructural analysis indicated that the attached structures of somatic embryos displayed a great morphological diversity ranging from a few cells to massive and columnar structures. This contrast with the simple suspensors observed in zygotic embryos which were only formed by five cells. As well as the suspensor of zygotic embryos, somatic embryo attached structures undergo a process of degeneration in later stages of embryo development. Other characteristic shared by zygotic suspensors and somatic embryo attached structures was the presence of thick cell walls surrounding the cells. Elongated thin filaments were often associated with the structures attached to somatic embryos, whereas in other cases, tubular cells containing starch grains connected the embryo to the supporting tissue. These characteristics associated with the presence of plasmodesmata in the cells of the attached structures seem to indicate a role on embryo nutrition. However, cell proliferation in the attached structures resulting into new somatic embryos may also suggest a more complex relationship between the embryo and the structures connecting it to the supporting tissue.     

Developmental pattern formation of somatic embryos induced in cell suspension cultures of cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp]

The sequence of events in the functional body pattern formation during the somatic embryo development in cowpea suspensions is described under three heads. Early stages of somatic embryogenesis were characterized by both periclinal and anticlinal cell divisions. Differentiation of the protoderm cell layer by periclinal divisions marked the commencement of somatic embryogenesis. The most critical events appear to be the formation of apical meristems, establishment of apical-basal patterns of symmetry, and cellular organization in oblong-stage somatic embryo for the transition to torpedo and cotyledonary-stage somatic embryos. Two different stages of mature embryos showing distinct morphology, classified based on the number of cotyledons and their ability to convert into plantlets, were visualized. Repeated mitotic divisions of the sub-epidermal cell layers marked the induction of proembryogenic mass (PEM) in the embryogenic calli. The first division plane was periclinally-oriented, the second anticlinally-oriented, and the subsequent division planes appeared in any direction, leading to clusters of proembryogenic clumps. Differentiation of the protoderm layer marks the beginning of the structural differentiation in globular stage. Incipient procambium formation is the first sign of somatic embryo transition. Axial elongation of inner isodiametric cells of the globular somatic embryo followed by the change in the growth axis of the procambium is an important event in oblong-stage somatic embryo. Vacuolation in the ground meristem of torpedo-stage embryo begins the process of histodifferentiation. Three major embryonic tissue systems; shoot apical meristem, root apical meristem, and the differentiation of procambial strands, are visible in torpedo-stage somatic embryo. Monocotyledonary-stage somatic embryo induced both the shoot apical meristem and two leaf primordia compared to the ansiocotyledonary somatic embryo.     

Effect of plumule and radicle on somatic embryogenesis in the cultures of ginseng zygotic embryos

Immature zygotic embryos of ginseng produced somatic embryos on MS medium without growth regulators. However, in the culture of mature zygotic embryos, excision of the embryo was required for somatic embryo induction. Somatic embryos formed only on excised cotyledons without an embryo axis or on excised embryos without the plumule and radicle of the axis. This observation suggests that the axis tip of the embryo might suppress somatic embryo production although the cotyledon tissues have predetermined embryogenic competency. To clarify the role of the embryo axis on somatic embryo formation, excised plumules or radicles were placed in direct contact with the basal cut-ends of cotyledons. The adhesion of plumules or radicles highly suppressed somatic embryo formation from cotyledon explants. When an agar block containing exudate from excised plumules or radicles was placed in contact with the cut end of the cotyledon, a similar inhibition was observed. These results suggest that embryogenic competence is suppressed by endogenous inhibitors present in the axis tip of the zygotic embryo.     

Similarity of expression patterns of knotted1 and ZmLEC1 during somatic and zygotic embryogenesis in maize ( Zea mays L.)

Expression of knotted1 ( kn1) and ZmLEC1, a maize homologue of the Arabidopsis LEAFY COTYLEDON1 ( LEC1) was studied using in situ hybridization during in vitro somatic embryogenesis of maize ( Zea mays L.) genotype Hi-II. Expression of kn1 was initially detected in a small group of cells (5-10) in the somatic embryo proper at the globular stage, in a specific region where the shoot meristem is initiating at the scutellar stage, and specifically in the shoot meristem at the coleoptilar stage. Expression of ZmLEC1 was strongly detected in the entire somatic embryo proper at the globular stage, gradually less in the differentiating scutellum at the scutellar and coleoptilar stages. The results of analyses show that the expression pattern of kn1 during in vitro somatic embryogenesis of maize is similar to that of kn1 observed during zygotic embryo development in maize. The expression pattern of ZmLEC1 in maize during in vitro development is similar to that of LEC1 in Arabidopsis during zygotic embryo development. These observations indicate that in vitro somatic embryogenesis likely proceeds through similar developmental pathways as zygotic embryo development, after somatic cells acquire competence to form embryos. In addition, based on the ZmLEC1 expression pattern, we suggest that expression of ZmLEC1 can be used as a reliable molecular marker for detecting early-stage in vitro somatic embryogenesis in maize.     

Developmental pathways of somatic embryogenesis

Somatic embryogenesis is defined as a process in which a bipolar structure, resembling a zygotic embryo, develops from a non-zygotic cell without vascular connection with the original tissue. Somatic embryos are used for studying regulation of embryo development, but also as a tool for large scale vegetative propagation. Somatic embryogenesis is a multi-step regeneration process starting with formation of proembryogenic masses, followed by somatic embryo formation, maturation, desiccation and plant regeneration. Although great progress has been made in improving the protocols used, it has been revealed that some treatments, coinciding with increased yield of somatic embryos, can cause adverse effects on the embryo quality, thereby impairing germination and ex vitro growth of somatic embryo plants. Accordingly, ex vitro growth of somatic embryo plants is under a cumulative influence of the treatments provided during the in vitro phase. In order to efficiently regulate the formation of plants via somatic embryogenesis it is important to understand how somatic embryos develop and how the development is influenced by different physical and chemical treatments. Such knowledge can be gained through the construction of fate maps representing an adequate number of morphological and molecular markers, specifying critical developmental stages. Based on this fate map, it is possible to make a model of the process. The mechanisms that control cell differentiation during somatic embryogenesis are far from clear. However, secreted, soluble signal molecules play an important role. It has long been observed that conditioned medium from embryogenic cultures can promote embryogenesis. Active components in the conditioned medium include endochitinases, arabinogalactan proteins and lipochitooligosaccharides.     

Somatic embryogenesis in tamarillo (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Cyphomandra betacea</Emphasis>): approaches to increase efficiency of embryo formation and plant development

Somatic embryogenesis induction and somatic embryo development of the solanaceous tamarillo tree were previously established and successfully used for plant regeneration from different explants and varieties. Somatic embryogenesis was induced in Murashige and Skoog medium containing 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) or picloram and high sucrose concentrations (0.25 M). The embryogenic tissues were transferred to an auxin-free medium, with reduced sucrose levels, to permit embryo development and conversion into plantlets. This two-step protocol is often impaired by an ineffective transition from the proembryogenic masses to embryo development. In this work, attempts to optimize the somatic embryogenesis system of tamarillo by improving the quality of somatic embryo and embryo conversion were carried out. The results showed that the presence of a high number of abnormal somatic embryos did not significantly inhibit plant conversion, hence indicating that shoot apical meristem development was not affected in abnormal somatic embryos. It was also shown that the manipulation of sucrose concentration in the development medium (0.11 M) and dark conditions before conversion increased the number of morphologically normal somatic embryos. The comparison between mature cotyledonary zygotic and somatic embryos showed an inefficient accumulation of storage compounds, mainly lipids, in somatic embryos. These reduced levels of lipid storage could be responsible for the abnormal patterns of embryo development found in tamarillo somatic embryos.     

Comparative analysis of cell cycle events in zygotic and somatic embryos of Cyclamen persicum indicates strong resemblance of somatic embryos to recalcitrant seeds

Embryo development and germination of Cyclamen persicum have been comparatively characterized for zygotic and somatic embryos with regard to mitotic activity and morphology in order to identify developmental abnormalities in somatic embryogenesis. Zygotic embryo development proved to be highly synchronous with distinct periods of cell division, cell elongation and embryo maturation within a total period of 17 weeks of seed development. Somatic embryo development was accomplished within only 3 weeks, resulting in a mixture of morphologically highly variable embryos. No distinct developmental periods could be identified and no reduction of the mitotic activity was discovered for non-desiccated somatic embryos. Controlled desiccation of somatic embryos severely reduced their germination rate, demonstrating resemblance of somatic embryos to recalcitrant seeds, whereas zygotic Cyclamen seeds could be characterized as typically orthodox.     

小麦幼胚培养中的体细胞胚胎发生

小麦品种崇阳红麦和鄂思一号杂种一代幼胚培养具有再生植株的潜力。从一个幼胚经200天左右的连续培养获得530多株再生植株,并从中获得了典型的具有两极性的与愈伤组织块仅局部相连的胚状体。体细胞胚胎发生是小麦幼胚培养的主要途径,但受培养条件的影响,以MS培养基作基本培养基,低浓度2,4-D(0.4mg/1)和水解酪蛋白(1000mg/l)有利于体细胞胚胎发生。