Methotrexate and aminopterin effects on growth and regeneration in Daucus carota |
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Authors: | R H Smith H A Kerns J L Anthony J R Wild |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, 77843 College Station, TX, USA;(2) Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, 77843 College Station, TX, USA |
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Abstract: | Daucus carota L., callus was cultured on various levels of the folate analogs, methotrexate (4-amino-10-methylfolic acid, amethopterin) and aminopter in (4-aminofolic acid). Callus growth was inhibited as analog concentrations were increased from 0.01 M to 10 M. Methotrexate concentrations in excess of 10 M were lethal. In contrast, concentrations of aminopterin in the range of 10 to 100 M resulted in renewed growth and somatic embryogenesis leading to plant regeneration. This plant regeneration occurred even in the presence of 5.0 mg/l 2,4-D or NAA (concentrations up to fifty times higher than that required to maintain callus growth). These observations reveal that aminopterin at high concentrations, but not methotrexate, triggers somatic embryogenesis in the presence of auxin. All tested levels of aminopterin permitted regeneration in the absence of auxin.Abbreviations 2,4-D
2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid
- NAA
1-naphthylacetic acid
- DHFR
EC 1.5.1.3, dihydrofolate reductase or 5,6,7,8,- tetrahydrofolate: NADP+ oxidoreductase
- C1
single carbon
- dTMP
deoxyribothymidine-5 — monophosphate
Technical Article No. 21590 from Texas Agricultural Experiment Station |
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