MAINTENANCE OF THE INDUCED HYPOMETHYLATED STATE OF TOBACCO NUCLEAR REPETITIVE DNA-SEQUENCES IN THE COURSE OF PROTOPLAST AND PLANT-REGENERATION

Citation
B. Koukalova et al., MAINTENANCE OF THE INDUCED HYPOMETHYLATED STATE OF TOBACCO NUCLEAR REPETITIVE DNA-SEQUENCES IN THE COURSE OF PROTOPLAST AND PLANT-REGENERATION, Planta, 194(3), 1994, pp. 306-310
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
PlantaACNP
ISSN journal
00320935
Volume
194
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
306 - 310
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-0935(1994)194:3<306:MOTIHS>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Previously, we established experimental conditions allowing us to indu ce hypomethylation of tandem arrays of highly repetitive DNA sequences in the Nicotiana tabacum L. nuclear genome (M. Bezdek et al. 1991, Pl anta 184, 487-490). In this paper, we demonstrate that loci containing the highly repetitive sequences of the HRS60 family can maintain the induced hypomethylated state through protoplast regeneration, non-diff erentiated callus growth, and plant regeneration. The hypomethylation, induced with 5-azacytidine and monitored on these sequences, did not substantially alter the capacity of calli to produce plants. It can be concluded that, in contradistinction of multiple copies of transgenes or ectopic genes which are usually recognized as methylation targets, endogenous tandem repeats, such as the HRS60, present at 10(5) copies in the genome, can escape de-novo methylation.