The Effects of Hormone Treatment on Epigenetic Marks During Organogenesis in Pinus radiata D. Don Embryos

0490813 - BFÚ 2019 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Lorenzo, Jose Luis Rodriguez - Valledor, L. - Hasbun, R. - Sanchez, P. - Rodriguez, R. - Canal, M.J.
The Effects of Hormone Treatment on Epigenetic Marks During Organogenesis in Pinus radiata D. Don Embryos.
Journal of Plant Growth Regulation. Roč. 35, č. 1 (2016), s. 97-108. ISSN 0721-7595. E-ISSN 1435-8107
Institutional support: RVO:68081707
Keywords : ARABIDOPSIS-THALIANA SHOOT * CULTURED IN-VITRO * DAUCUS-CAROTA L
OECD category: Plant sciences, botany
Impact factor: 2.073, year: 2016

Adventitious organogenesis from zygotic embryos is one of the most reliable techniques to propagate clonal Pinus radiata individuals. Regulation of gene expression has an important role to generate a correct caulogenic pattern, and genomic DNA methylation is amongst the main studied regulatory mechanisms in animals and plants. The aim of this work is to evaluate the role of DNA methylation and histone H4 acetylation during different cell reprogramming processes. Embryo macromorphological responses to each growth regulator were correlated to DNA methylation and acetylated H4 histone content over time. Immunodetection of 5-mdC and AcH4 in whole embryos revealed differences in the tissue depending on the growth regulator. Adventitious shoot induction by benzyladenine is associated with a DNA hypomethylation. The distribution along the tissue of the methylation signal suggests a possible inhibition of growth and elongation in the embryos. However, a hypomethylation in the cotyledons during adventitious shoot induction could indicate an active gene expression during the organogenic process. On the other hand, alteration of embryo growth induced by indole butyric acid and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid occurs along a wide change in DNA methylation and H4 histone acetylation content and distribution. These results show that the action of the different growth regulators is epigenetically regulated in both apical meristems.
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