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Multiplication and Differentiation of Plastid Nucleoids during Development of Chloroplasts and Etioplasts from Proplastids in Triticum aestivum
Authors:Miyamura, Shinichi   Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi   Nagata, Toshiyuki
Affiliation:1Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, 305 Japan
2Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113 Japan
3Department of Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology 38 Nishigonaka, Myodaiji-cho, Okazaki, 444 Japan
Abstract:The morphological changes of plastid nucleoids (pt nucleoids)in the shoot apex and along the axis of the leaf blade in Triticumaestivum L. cv. Asakaze were followed with fluorescence microscopyafter staining with 4'6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) andquantified with supersensitive microspectrophotometry. Proplastidsin the shoot apex contained 1–10 spherical pt nucleoids.These pt nucleoids changed to a row of spherical and cup-shapedpt nucleoids in sausage-shaped plastids at the leaf base inboth dark and light conditions, in which active cell divisionwas observed. These structures have a higher copy number ofplastid DNA (pt DNA) (72–78 copies) compared to proplastidsin the shoot apex (32–45 copies) and, therefore, may reflectthat active pt DNA synthesis is in progression. In the dark,the cup-shaped pt nucleoids in the spherical etioplasts, whichoriginated from the sausage-shaped plastids, grew to form ring-shapedpt nucleoids. Each ring-shaped pt nucleoid is sub-divided intosmaller pt nucleoids. Under continuous illumination, similarmorphological changes of pt nucleoids occurred except for distributionof small pt nucleoids into young chloroplasts as well as inmature chloroplasts. However, pt nucleotids of leucoplasts inepidermal and vascular bundle sheath cells did not show conspicuouschanges along the axis of the leaf blade. The significance ofthese observations is discussed in relation to plastid differentiationand to the plastid division cycle. 4 Present address: Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo,Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113 (Received August 15, 1989; Accepted April 13, 1990)
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