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Changes during development in the permeability of sclerotia ofSclerotinia minor to an apoplastic tracer

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Sclerotia ofSclerotinia minor produced in culture are permeable to the apoplastic tracer sulphorhodamine G (SR) in early stages of their development, but become impermeable as the rind differentiates at the onset of maturation. Reduction in permeability corresponds with deposition of the dark brown pigment in the rind cell walls rather than initiation of the rind as a distinct surface layer. Fluorochrome permeation into cut sclerotia indicates that, while the rind is the primary barrier, the walls and extracellular matrix of the cortex and medulla of mature sclerotia also impede SR movement. Some cells take up fluorochrome into the protoplast. This indicates enhanced proton pumping activity at the cell surface, which suppresses ionisation of the fluorochrome, allowing it to cross the plasma membrane and accumulate in the hyphae. In intact sclerotia such hyphae are very rare and were detected only at one stage of development. However, in cut sclerotia at the two earliest stages of development most of the hyphae near the cut surface accumulated SR and it is possible that this is due to proton pumping activity induced by wounding.

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Abbreviations

ECM:

extracellular matrix

SR:

sulphorhodamine G

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Young, N., Ashford, A.E. Changes during development in the permeability of sclerotia ofSclerotinia minor to an apoplastic tracer. Protoplasma 167, 205–214 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01403384

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