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Journal of Experimental Botany, doi:10.1093/jxb/erg170
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Received October 7, 2002; accepted March 14, 2003
© 2003 Society for Experimental Biology

RESEARCH PAPER

Changing desiccation tolerance of pea embryo protoplasts during germination

Karen L. Koster 1*, Nichole Reisdorph 1, Jodie L. Ramsay 1

1 Department of Biology, The University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark Street, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kkoster{at}usd.edu.


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Protoplasts were isolated from pea (Pisum sativum L. cv. Alaska) embryonic axes during and after germination to determine whether the loss of desiccation tolerance in the embryos also occurs in the protoplasts. At all times studied, protoplast survival decreased as water content decreased; however, the sensitivity to dehydration was less when the protoplasts were isolated from embryos that were still desiccation-tolerant (12 h and 18 h of imbibition) than when protoplasts were derived from axes that were sensitive (24 h and 36 h of imbibition). The water content at which 50% of the population was killed (WC50) increased throughout germination and early seedling growth for both the intact tissue and the protoplasts derived from them. Prior to radicle emergence, protoplasts were less desiccation-tolerant than the intact axes; however, protoplasts isolated from radicles shortly after emergence had lower WC50s than the intact radicles. A comparison of protoplast survival after isolation and dehydration in either 500 mM sucrose/raffinose or 700 mM sucrose revealed no difference in tolerance except at 24 h of imbibition, when protoplasts treated in the more concentrated solution had improved tolerance of dehydration. Although intact epicotyls are generally more desiccation-tolerant than radicles, protoplasts isolated separately from epicotyls and radicles did not differ in tolerance. Collectively, these data suggest that protoplasts gradually lose desiccation tolerance during germination, as do the orthodox embryos from which they were derived. However, even prior to radicle emergence, protoplasts display a sensitivity to progressive dehydration that is similar to that shown by recalcitrant and ageing embryos.

Key words: Desiccation tolerance, embryo, germination, pea, Pisum sativum L., protoplast isolation.


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