CELL WALL SYNTHESIS AND CELL ELONGATION IN OAT COLEOPTILE TISSUE

Ray , Peter M. (U. Michigan, Ann Arbor.) Cell wall synthesis and cell elongation in oat coleoptile tissue. Amer. Jour. Bot. 49(9): 928–939. Illus. 1962.—Cell wall synthesis in oat coleoptile cylinders tends to run parallel with but not usually proportional to cell elongation both under promotion by auxin and sugar and under inhibition by supraoptimal auxin or sugar, or by a variety of other inhibitors. Inhibitors of elongation fall into 2 classes with respect to their effects on wall synthesis: (1) those which inhibit the 2 processes approximately equally (galactose, mannose, mannitol, azide, iodoacetate, dinitrophenol, low temperature, supraoptimal auxin) and (2) those which inhibit elongation percentagewise much more strongly than wall synthesis, so that as complete inhibition of elongation is approached, substantial wall synthesis continues (Ca^{+ +}, fluoride, arsenite, mercurials). When coleoptile cylinders elongate in the absence of sugar, the cell walls appear to become markedly thinner, and in some experiments negligible increase in total wall material apparently occurs. However, the amount of α-cellulose does rise. Increase in cell wall material occurs during elongation of cylinders at 2 C. The results are interpreted as indicating that during elongation the bulk of new cell wall material is added by apposition, but a certain proportion of the new material is probably introduced within the existing wall structure and induces its expansion.     

HISTOLOGICAL STUDIES ON THE COLEOPTILE. II. COMPARATIVE VASCULAR ANATOMY OF COLEOPTILES OF AVENA AND TRITICUM

The vascular bundles in the uppermost 1-4 mm of the coleoptiles of 9 varieties of Avena sativa, and also of Avena fatua L., all terminate essentially vertically with a small “cap” of tracheary elements. In Triticum vulgare Vill., by contrast, they terminate with a horizontal or downward-pointing section. This brings the two bundles more or less together and may result in their complete fusion, usually with a short vascular extension. In both genera the bundles contain one or more series of apparently active, undifferentiated cells. In the mature embryos the bundles are entirely procambial in nature, but xylem differentiation begins rapidly upon germination and proceeds towards the tip, which is reached by the time the coleoptile is 1.5 mm long; thereafter it proceeds basipetally and it may continue at the base after elongation has ceased there. The differentiation of stomata also appears to proceed basipetally. It may be deduced that the coleoptile cannot form lignin while in the embryo but begins to do so upon germination. Parallels are brought out between auxin production first by the endosperm and then by the tip, on the one hand, and lignification in the xylem and in the stomata, on the other.     

结球甘兰下胚轴组织培养形态发生的组织学研究

结球甘兰离体下胚轴培养,近切口的中柱薄壁细胞首先启动分生,中柱外的内皮层,皮层,表皮细胞随后也启动分生。随着愈伤组织的生长和愈伤形成层的建成,维管组织与分生组织产生。组织培养中出现的多倍性细胞团和单倍性细胞,不会引起原二倍体物种的遗传性变异和性状变化。在愈伤组织中,芽多为外起源。由原体原始细胞和原套原始细胞发育成芽原基,进一步形成不定芽。另外,不定芽还可由外植体皮层内薄壁组织直接产生。不定根为内起     

槐树组织细胞培养的研究

系统研究了槐树叶片、子叶及花药的培养方法和植株再生,获得了大量的试管苗,建立了槐树二倍体和单倍体植株快速繁殖的培养程序。实验表明在MS附加高浓度比值BA／IBA或2,4-D的培养基中可诱导各种外植体在短期内产生大量的不定芽和试管苗,但同时,又诱导产生了许多超度含水态苗。在培养过程中,BA浓度先高后低,既可获得大量的试管苗,又相对降低了超度含水态苗的比率,是槐树快速繁殖程序中的重要一环。组织学观察显示,槐树子叶切块培养中形成的胚状体来自于子叶的表皮及叶肉细胞,通过单细胞起源和多细胞出芽两种方式产生。     

STUDIES ON DROSOPHILA EMBRYONIC CELLS IN VITRO I. CHARACTERISTICS OF CELL TYPES IN CULTURE *

Embryonic cells from Drosophila melanogaster were cultured in medium K-17 supplemented with 0.1 mg/ml of fetuin and 15% fetal bovine serum, and the behavior of embryonic cells, the characteristics of some cell types and the maintenance of the phenotypic properties of the cells were examined. Embryos at the stage with a saclike midgut (12 hr eggs) were found to be the best materials for cultivation. Muscle cells, epithelial cells, fibroblastic cells and small cells were observed as distinct migrating cell types. Muscle cells pulsated synchrónously when two or more cells made contact with each other and this pulsation continued for more than six weeks under the culture conditions employed. Epithelial cells matured with increase in size and in the number of cytoplasmic granules. Fibroblastic cells had conspicuous motile activity. Small cells were peculiar for their size of about 3 μm diameter and formed groups of about forty to fifty cells. Their characteristic shape and size suggested that they were imaginal disc cells. Cellular spheres, which consisted of epithelial cells and fibroblastic cells, and nerve fibers of nerve cells were also observed. Some mitotic figures, suggesting the occurrence of cell division, were observed in cultures of epithelial cells.     

骨组织中细胞的受力分析

基于骨陷窝中组织液和细胞具有的不可压缩性,以及组织液通过骨小管在骨陷窝裼 流动,得到了细胞所受压力的新的表达式。对该表达式的讨论结果表明它能够描述细胞的主要力学特性,例如：松弛和滞后效应。并根据眩表达式,求得细胞的松弛时间为２．４ｍｓ,与Ｃｏｗｉｎ等人估计值（４．９ｍｓ）接近。而在阶跃载荷下细胞所受最大压力为外力的一半,高于Ｃｏｗｉｎ等人的估计值（１２％）。     

黄鳝松果腺复合体的超显微结构研究

鱼类松果腺能将其感受到的光信息以及脑部神经信号转换成激素分泌,研究表明,褪黑激素是松果腺影响生物性腺发育的主要分泌物［１,２］。因此推测松果腺及其分泌物褪黑激素可能参与调节黄鳝的性转变进程。作者曾利用外源褪黑激素注射鱼体的实验结果表明,褪黑激素对黄鳝的性腺发育存在着剂量依存的促进与抑制的双重调节作用［３］。本文首次证实黄鳝脑中松果腺复合体（ＰｉｎｅａｌＣｏｍｐｌｅｘ）的存在,并对其超显微结构进行了研究。１材料与方法１．１实验动物　黄鳝（Ｍｏｎｏｐｔｅｒｕｓ　ａｌｂｕｓ　Ｚｕｉｅｗ）：体长２８－４…     

GROWTH OF THE BARLEY COLEOPTILE. I. ITS RELATIONSHIP TO CELL NUMBER AND LENGTH IN NORMAL AND γ-IRRADIATED SEEDLINGS

The number of cells per vertical column in barley coleoptiles differs in various growth classes; it is highest in tall coleoptiles, intermediate in medium ones, and lowest in short ones. In those that elongate early and grow rapidly, cells per column increased from 88–218 between 12 and 44 hr after the seeds were placed on water; in short coleoptiles they increased to only 85 per column after 115 hr because elongation and division are restricted in these. Cell number does not increase in coleoptiles from seeds irradiated with 250 krad. Variation in the growth pattern of irradiated coleoptiles was similar to that of normal ones, although the range in lengths was reduced. Although the number of cells is much higher in tall controls than in irradiated coleoptiles, the latter can become tall; therefore an increase in cell number during germination does not seem to be a prerequisite for tallness. Coleoptiles 32 mm long, from irradiated seeds, have the same number of cells per column as the shortest ones (6 mm) after 119 hr.     

水分胁迫下冬小麦芽鞘长度与抗旱性的关系及其遗传特性的研究

研究结果表明：抗旱性不同的小麦品种低水势下芽鞘长差异显著,抗旱性强的品种芽鞘长度高于抗旱性弱的品种。分析了低水势下芽鞘长度与大田干旱条件下产量的相关性,发现低水势下芽鞘长度与旱田产量,抗旱系数的相产 达显著或极显著水平。对低水势下芽鞘长度的遗传率进行了测定,证明该指标的广义遗传率及狭义遗传率都很高,可以用这一指标在进育种早代材料中进行抗旱个体选择。认为,低水势下芽鞘长是抗旱鉴定与抗育种个体选择的良     

水分胁迫下冬小麦芽鞘长度与抗旱性的关系及其遗传特性的研究

研究结果表明：抗旱性不同的小麦品种低水势下芽鞘长差异显著,抗旱性强的品种芽鞘长度高二抗旱性弱的品种。分析了低水势下芽鞘长度与大田干旱条件下产量的相关性,发现低水势下芽鞘长度与旱田产量,抗旱系数的相关性达显著或极显著水平。对低水势下牙鞘长度的遗传率进行了测定,证明了该指标的广义遗传率及狭义遗传率都很高,可以用这一指标在抗旱育种早代材料中进行抗旱个体选择。认为,低水势下芽鞘长度是抗旱鉴定与抗旱育种个体     

THE COMPARATIVE CELL CYCLE AND METABOLIC EFFECTS OF CHEMICAL TREATMENTS ON ROOT TIP MERISTEMS. I. IOXYNIL

In this study we investigated the cell cycle response of Vicia faba and Pisum sativum root tip meristems to ioxynil treatments at two concentrations, (10^−-4m and 10^−-6m ). After 24 h of treatment at 10^−-4m concentration, O₂ uptake and ATP concentrations were significantly reduced. The mitotic index was reduced and the cell cycle population position was shifted to indicate that previously inhibited cells reformed their nuclei and became tetraploid. Prolonged treatment at this concentration resulted in cell death. Treatment with ioxynil at 10^−-6m reduced the rate of entry into mitosis. Abnormal mitotic figures in all stages were observed, and the ploidy level of mitotically inhibited cells was doubled. These observations indicated that at 10^−-6m concentration ioxynil acts as a preprophase inhibitor, that is, it does not act directly on the mitotic apparatus but does affect processes on which mitosis depends.     

創傷癒合和組織再生的研究——Ⅰ.白鼠皮膚切除創傷癒合過程中創口的收縮

一.引言在高等動物的皮膚創傷癒合過程中,創口的收縮是很顯著的現象,使它所形成的疤痕往往小於當初創傷的部分。因此,創口的收縮作用,對於創傷癒合來說,是具有極大意義的。最早Carrel(1910)在研究狗的皮膚創傷癒合工作中,即已指出這個創口收縮的重要性;並且提出是由於肉芽的收縮作用(granulous retrac-     

STUDIES ON THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF COLLAGEN : I. THE GROWTH OF FOWL OSTEOBLASTS AND THE FORMATION OF COLLAGEN IN TISSUE CULTURE

1. A tissue culture method was devised in which suspensions of osteoblasts, obtained directly from frontal bones of fowl embryos, were grown in a fluid, fibrin-free medium. 2. Maximum growth of the tissue, as measured by dry weight, with the formation of collagen protein, based on the estimation of hydroxyproline, was obtained in periods of up to 6 days. 3. Appreciable amounts of protein-bound hydroxyproline were formed during the first 24 hour growth period, but electron microscopy of portions of the same cultures failed to demonstrate the presence of any typical collagen fibrils. 4. The subsequent formation of many characteristic collagen fibrils was not associated with a significant rise in the mean hydroxyproline content of the tissue. 5. The cytoplasmic granules of the osteoblasts stained intensely with the P.A.S. technique when the collagen fibrils were being formed. 6. It is suggested that collagen-forming cells synthesise and secrete a hydroxyproline-rich precursor of protein or large peptide nature, which subsequently becomes directly transformed into typical collagen fibrils.     

ON THE RELATION BETWEEN GROWTH AND RESPIRATION IN THE AVENA COLEOPTILE

1. The growth of Avena coleoptile sections in sucrose and auxin solutions is inhibited by various substances which are known to act as dehydrogenase inhibitors. 2. Iodoacetate, which is particularly active in this connection, inhibits all growth at a concentration of 5 x 10^–5 M, but produces only a slight inhibition of oxygen uptake. 3. The growth inhibition by iodoacetate is completely removed by malate and fumarate, and to a lesser extent by succinate and pyruvate. 4. These acids themselves increase the effect of auxin on growth and also increase the respiration of the coleoptile sections, but only if auxin is present. 5. When sections have been soaked in malate or fumarate, the addition of auxin considerably increases the total respiration. Further, the concentration range over which this increase takes place parallels that active in promoting growth. 6. The four-carbon acids provide a respiratory system which is part of the chain of growth processes, and which is in some way catalyzed by auxin. It represents a small but variable fraction of the total respiration.     

RIBONUCLEIC ACID METABOLISM AND CELL EXPANSION IN OAT COLEOPTILE

RNA metabolism in oat coleoptiles was studied using physiologicalresponses to 5-FU and actinomycin D; autoradiographic detectionof RNA and protein synthesis; and estimation of ribosomal concentrationby analytical ultracentrifugation. 5-FU failed to inhibit growthof either intact coleoptiles or isolated coleoptile segmentsbut completely blocked cell division in roots. Actinomycin Dmarkedly inhibited auxin-induced expansion of coleoptile segments.When supplied to isolated segments from coleoptiles of variouslengths the RNA precursors cytidine, adenine and adenosine allshowed weak incorporation into RNA of nuclei and in some cases,to a lesser extent, RNA of cytoplasm. IAA did not affect thisRNA synthesis but it was considerably reduced by actinomycinD. A proportion of the label incorporated from RNA precursorswas not removable with either RNase, PCA or hot TCA but wasextracted by trypsin. The amount of this spurious incorporationincreased with coleoptile age, as did the ability to incorporatelabelled amino acids. The concentration of both free and boundribosomes does not increase in growing coleoptiles and may evendecline. Free ribosomes decline markedly in fully grown coleoptileswhile the proportion of bound ribosomes increases. It is concludedthat young coleoptiles contain a full complement of ribosomesnecessary for subsequent growth but normal growth is dependenton continued production of an actinomycin D-sensitive messenger-typeRNA. No evidence for auxin mediation of RNA synthesis was found. ¹Present address: Laboratory of Cell Biology, Faculty of Science,Osaka City University, Sugimoto-cho, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Japan.     

HISTOLOGICAL AND HISTOCHEMICAL CHANGES IN DEVELOPING AND RIPENING PEACHES. II. THE CELL WALLS AND PECTINS

Reeve , R. M. (U.S.D.A., Albany, California.) Histological and histochemical changes in developing and ripening peaches. II. The cell walls and pectins. Amer. Jour. Bot. 46(4): 241–247. Illus. 1959.—Histological and histochemical observations on developing and ripening clingstone and freestone peaches have revealed that, after cell divisions have ceased in the mesocarp, cell wall thickening and cell enlargement in the mesocarp parenchyma increase until the fruit is nearly full cell size. The cell walls then decrease in thickness as the fruit ripens and softens. Degree of methyl esterification of the pectic substances, as estimated histochemically, remains at about 75–80% in immature fruits during their cell-enlargement phase of growth. Percent of methyl esterification apparently is much lower, or amounts of esterified pectates are very low during the meristematic phases of fruit growth. Just prior to ripening, degree of esterification increases and approaches 100% in hard, ripe fruit at about the same time that the parenchyma cell walls exhibit their greatest thickness or degree of hydration. The degree of esterification of the pectic substances then rapidly decreases and the cell walls become appreciably thinner as the ripening fruit softens. Further relation of these changes in wall thickness, in degree of esterification of the pectins, and in other cell wall carbohydrates to the textural qualities of ripening fruits is discussed. Interpretations concerning cell wall plasticity, cell growth and relation between auxin and changes in pectins also are presented.