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Liquid Culture Systems for in vitro Plant Propagation

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Chapter 25<br />

Potential of flow cytometry <strong>for</strong> monitor<strong>in</strong>g genetic stability<br />

of banana embryogenic cell suspension cultures<br />

Nicolas Roux 1 , Hannelore Strosse 2 , Arsenio Toloza 1 , Bart Panis 2 & Jaroslav<br />

Doležel 3<br />

1<br />

<strong>Plant</strong> Breed<strong>in</strong>g Unit, FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory, International<br />

Atomic Energy Agency Laboratories, A-2444 Seibersdorf, Austria.<br />

Now work<strong>in</strong>g <strong>for</strong> the International Network <strong>for</strong> the Improvement of banana and <strong>Plant</strong>a<strong>in</strong><br />

(INIBAP), Parc Scientifique Agropolis 2, 34397 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.<br />

E-mail: N.Roux@cgiar.org.<br />

2<br />

Laboratory of Tropical Crop Improvement, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kasteelpark<br />

Arenberg 13, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium.<br />

3<br />

Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics and Cytometry, Institute of Experimental Botany,<br />

Sokolovská 6, CZ-77200 Olomouc, Czech Republic.<br />

Abstract: Cell suspensions are the material of choice <strong>for</strong> rapid multiplication and <strong>for</strong> genetic<br />

eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g strategies such as <strong>in</strong> <strong>vitro</strong> mutagenesis and genetic trans<strong>for</strong>mation. Effective use<br />

of cell suspension cultures relies on the knowledge of several key parameters, which <strong>in</strong>clude<br />

genetic stability, k<strong>in</strong>etics of the cell cycle and a mode of plant regeneration. Here we report<br />

on the use of DNA flow cytometry <strong>for</strong> quality monitor<strong>in</strong>g of banana cell suspension cultures.<br />

The method facilitates detection of ploidy changes and the occurrence of aneuploidy, which<br />

result <strong>in</strong> somaclonal variation of cell-suspension-derived plants. Flow cytometry could also be<br />

used to analyse the cell cycle k<strong>in</strong>etics by calculat<strong>in</strong>g the ratio of cells <strong>in</strong> the G2 and G1 phase<br />

of the cell cycle. This is important to determ<strong>in</strong>e the most appropriate moment <strong>for</strong> mutagenic<br />

treatment or <strong>for</strong> genetic trans<strong>for</strong>mation but also as an <strong>in</strong>dicator on the proportion of cycl<strong>in</strong>g<br />

cells. In addition, the unicellular orig<strong>in</strong> of somatic embryos was verified by treat<strong>in</strong>g<br />

embryogenic cell suspensions with colchic<strong>in</strong>e and by determ<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g the ploidy of regenerated<br />

plants by flow cytometric analysis. None of the plants regenerated from colchic<strong>in</strong>e-treated<br />

embryogenic cell suspensions were mixoploid (chimeric). The application of flow cytometry<br />

will be discussed <strong>in</strong> relation to (a) the monitor<strong>in</strong>g of genetic <strong>in</strong>stability <strong>in</strong> DNA content of cell<br />

suspensions (b) the analysis of cell cycle and (c) the orig<strong>in</strong> of somatic embryos of bananas<br />

and planta<strong>in</strong>s.<br />

Key words: cell cycle, chimerism, DNA content, Musa acum<strong>in</strong>ata, somatic embryogenesis<br />

Abbreviations: ECS - embryogenic cell suspensions; ITC - INIBAP International Transit<br />

Center-International Network <strong>for</strong> the Improvement of Banana and <strong>Plant</strong>a<strong>in</strong><br />

337<br />

A.K. Hvoslef-Eide and W. Preil (eds.), <strong>Liquid</strong> <strong>Culture</strong> <strong>Systems</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>vitro</strong> <strong>Plant</strong> <strong>Propagation</strong>, 337–344.<br />

© 2005 Spr<strong>in</strong>ger. Pr<strong>in</strong>ted <strong>in</strong> the Netherlands.

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