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PLANT CELL REPORTS
Volume 26, Issue 11, Pages 1977-1984Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-007-0411-y
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chromosome doubling; flow cytometry; in vitro culture; nodal sections; oryzalin; Rosa rugosa
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Chromosome doubling was induced in vitro in a diploid hybrid of Rosa rugosa Thunb. using oryzalin as the spindle inhibitor. Nodal sections, 2 mm long, were exposed to 2.5 or 5 mu M oryzalin and 10 mm nodal sections were exposed to 5 mu M oryzalin for 0 (controls), 6, 12, 24 and 48 h. The ploidy of the emergent shoots was determined by flow cytometry. The frequency of tetraploid and mixoploid leaves that developed from 2 mm nodal sections exposed to 5 mu M oryzalin peaked at 12 h exposure, when 35% of the leaves were tetraploid, but fell after longer exposures. Fewer tetraploid and mixoploid leaves were found when 2 mm nodes were exposed to 2.5 mu M oryzalin for 6 and 12 h, indicating that it took longer for a spindle inhibiting concentration of oryzalin to build up in the meristem. However, the frequencies of tetraploid and mixoploid leaves continued to rise after 12 h and were highest at 48 h, when 44% were tetraploid. In treatments with 5 mu M oryzalin, the frequencies of tetraploid and mixoploid leaves were lower, at equivalent exposure times, in 10 mm nodes than 2 mm nodes. This suggests that oryzalin diffused to the meristem mainly via the cut surfaces and that access via the epidermis and cuticle was impeded.
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