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Wild-carrot (Daucus carota L.) cell cultures were screened to yield small (less than 63 μm) or large (greater than 170 μm) cell aggregates which were then subcultured. Cultures of the small-size class had a higher, those of the large-size class a lower anthocyanin yield than the unscreened culture. This relationship became accentuated with an increasing number of passages with screening prior to subculture. At the end of six months (12 passages), the pigment yield of the small-size class was triple that of the unscreened cells. Following this selection period, the tendency of the small-size fraction to increase in clump size when subcultured without screening was much less than that of freshly isolated cell aggregates of the same size. These observations may be explainable on the basis of a differential distribution of cytokinin between aggregates of different sizes. High levels of cytokinin inhibit anthocyanin accumulation and inhibit cell separation; these effects result in large cell aggregates having low levels of anthocyanin. In support of this hypothesis, it is shown that addition of kinetin to cultures of small cell aggregates causes an increase in the size of cell aggregates and a parallel decrease in anthocyanin yield.
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Kinnersley, A.M., Dougall, D.K. Increase in anthocyanin yield from wild-carrot cell cultures by a selection system based on cell-aggregate size. Planta 149, 200–204 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00380883
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