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JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 161, Issue 6, Pages 747-755Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1078/0176-1617-01061
Keywords
albinism; androgenesis; Hordeum vulgare L.; mannitol; plastid; pretreatment
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Sugars and polyols were tested at different steps of anther culture in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) to elucidate their influence on both the overall yield of androgenesis and the structure of plastics in relation to albinism. During the pretreatment period, the osmotic regulation in the medium was beneficial to microspore embryogenesis regardless of the type and concentration of the tested osmoticum. The use of mannitol (300 mOsm/kg), sorbitol (180 mOsm/kg), PEG (240 mOsm/kg) and sucrose (180 mOsm/kg) gave the best results in terms of green plant production, although the influence of each substance differed according to the studied parameter. Similarly, during anther culture the regulation of the osmotic pressure in the medium had various effects, according to the osmoticum used. The best results were obtained using mannitol (364 mOsm/kg), providing 139.7 green plants per 100 plated anthers. Plastids were examined by electron microscopy following both pretreatment and culture. In the presence of mannitol and PEG, plastics did not accumulate starch at any stage of the protocol but they started to differentiate into chloroplasts in the microspore-derived embryos. Using sorbitol and sucrose, plastics differentiated poorly but accumulated large amounts of starch, suggesting that these sugars are metabolized by micropores and microspore derived structures. However, the accumulation of starch was not correlated with the occurrence of albinism. These results indicated that, in barley, the osmotic regulation was favourable to switch the microspore gametophytic program toward a sporophytic program regardless of the nature of the osmoticum. In addition, during the pretreatment period, mannitol was found to be the most suitable osmoticum for subsequent embryo development.
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