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Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol 50, 101-106, Copyright © 1999 by Oxford University Press

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Cell cycle activity during seed priming is not essential for germination advancement in tomato

S Gurushinghe, Z Cheng and K Bradford
Department of Vegetable Crops, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8631, USA; Corresponding author; Fax: +1 530 752 4554; E-mail: kjbradford@ucdavis.edu

Seed priming is a technique of controlled hydration and drying that results in more rapid gemination when the seeds are reimbibed. Advancement of radicle meristem cells into the S and G2 phases of the cell cycle, increasing the percentage of nuclei having a 4C DNA content, has been reported to occur during priming. It has been suggested that the efficiency of priming is related to the accumulation of 4C nuclei in the radicle meristem, but the extent of cell cycle activity varied among different treatments and seed lots. A wide range of priming treatments across temperatures, water potentials and durations can be compared on a common basis using the hydrothermal priming time model. Flow cytometry was used to monitor cell cycle activity in a number of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) seed lots during priming in relation to the accumulation of hydrothermal priming time and the subsequent germination rate response. In some seed lots, the percentage of 4C nuclei in the radicle meristems prior to emergence increased in proportion to accumulated hydrothermal priming time, while in other lots, no increase in nuclear DNA content was detected. All lots, however, demonstrated rapid radicle emergence following priming. Thus, replicative DNA synthesis in radicle meristem nuclei often occurred during seed priming, but an increase in the percentage of 4C nuclei was not essential for germination advancement.Keywords: Lycopersicon esculentum Mill., tomato, cell cycle, germination, seed priming.
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