Control of nucleolar growth during interphase in higher plant meristem cells |
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Authors: | F Guerrero C De la Torre G García-Herdugo |
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Institution: | (1) Laboratorio de Citologia, Facultade de Veterinaria, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Lugo |
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Abstract: | Summary The evolution of nuclear and nucleolar sizes throughout interphase have been studied in synchronous caffeine-labeled binucleate cells of onion root meristems by using silver impregnation and stereological methods over semithin sections. Nucleus and nucleolus grow independently, since nucleolus enlarges at its fastest rate in G 1, while nucleus grows mostly in two periods: onset of replication and G 2. Nucleolar size in the cycle seems to be a genecontrolled function, hardly affected by protein synthesis inhibition. Hence, there is a biphasic response to cycloheximide (CHM) in the fast growing nucleoli of both early and late G 1 with an initial stimulation later counterbalanced by a depressed rate, so that nucleolar size in S was similar to control shortly afterwards the start of the CHM treatment. The initial enlargement under CHM was due to an increase of all nucleolar structural components, i.e., fibrillar, granular, vacuolar, and lacunar regions. No cycloheximide effect whatsoever was detected in S and G 2 nucleoli.Abbreviations CHM
cycloheximide
- F
fibrillar component
- G
granular component
- L
lacunae
- V
vacuoles
- VN
nuclear volume
- VNu
nucleolar volume
- VvNu
volume density of the nucleoli |
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Keywords: | Nucleolar cycle Meristematic cells Cycloheximide Stereology |
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