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During the culture of tobacco BY 2 cells derived from Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. Bright Yellow 2, morphological changes of plastid (pt) nucleoids and their replication were examined by fluorescence microscopy after staining with 4′6-diamidino-2-phenylindole. Upon transfer to fresh medium, the fluorescence intensity originating from pt nucleoids increased markedly. Copy numbers of ptDNA per cell calculated from the quantitative data by super-sensitive microspectroscopy increased 11-fold within 1 d of culture to reach 11 000, then decreased gradually to 1 000 after one week of culture. Autoradiography by labelling with [3H]thymidine showed that DNA synthesis in plastids occurred exclusively during the first day of culture, whereas nuclear DNA synthesis was observed from the first to the sixth day of culture. Replication of plastids was most frequently observed on the second day. Thereafter the formation of starch granules predominated in plastids up to the fifth day of culture, but the starch granules disappeared in the stationary-phase cells. The meaning of such preferential synthesis of ptDNA upon transfer to fresh medium is discussed in relation to the interaction between plastids and nuclei.
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Abbreviations
- pt:
-
plastid
- DAPI:
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4,6′-diamidino-2-phenylindole
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Yasuda, T., Kuroiwa, T. & Nagata, T. Preferential synthesis of plastid DNA and increased replication of plastids in cultured tobacco cells following medium renewal. Planta 174, 235–241 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00394776
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