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MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE
Volume 84, Issue 7, Pages 1400-1413Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.23696
Keywords
fluorescence microscopy; interxylary cork; programmed cell death; rhytidome; transmission electron microscopy
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- CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences [2019-I2M-5-065]
- key project at central government level: the ability establishment of sustainable use for valuable Chinese medicine resources [2060302]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81773853, 81573543]
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The study used light microscopy and electron microscopy to observe the formation process of interxylary cork in Astragalus roots and found that it involved programmed cell death. The results indicated abnormalities in the nucleus morphology, disappearance of vacuoles, degeneration of mitochondria, and other characteristics during cell death in the roots.
Programmed cell death (PCD) plays a critical role throughout the lives of plants, it is regarded as a highly regulated and active process of plant cell death during the times of biotic or abiotic stress. This study aims to provide developmental anatomical characteristics of the interxylary cork formation in the roots of Astragalus. membranaceus var. mongholicus, and to subsequently show cytomorphological evidence that PCD is involved in the development of rhytidome and interxylary cork. The developmental anatomy of rhytidome and interxylary cork of the perennial fresh main root of A. membranaceus var. mongholicus was studied using light microscopy, whereas the PCD in the development of rhytidome and interxylary cork was studied using fluorescence microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. Histologically, it was observed that the parenchyma cells of secondary phloem and xylem in roots recovered their meristematic ability, and later developed into rhytidome and interxylary cork. Cytologically, ultrastructural characteristics such as nucleus malformation, vacuole disappearance, mitochondrial degeneration, and vesicle filling were observed. In roots, the nucleus of the phloem parenchyma cells were terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick-end labeling (TUNEL)-positive from the pre-rhytidome stage to the formation of rhytidome stage and 4 ',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole dihydrochloride (DAPI)-negative during the mature rhytidome stage. The TUNEL assay of the xylem parenchyma cells showed positive characteristics from the early stage of interxylary cork formation to the interxylary cork formation stage, whereas DAPI-negative characteristics were observed in the mature interxylary cork. Gel electrophoresis showed that DNA cleavage was random. Our results indicated that the formation of the rhytidome and interxylary cork involved the PCD process.
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