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Protoplasts were enzymatically isolated from “Paul's scarlet” rose suspension culture cells. They were cultured in medium similar to that used to culture the cells from which they were isolated with the addition of sucrose as an osmotic stabiliser. They were studied by light and electron microscopy and their changes in size and number per culture were recorded. Expansion was greater when the protoplasts were cultured in medium plus 12% sucrose than with 24% sucrose. Budding was observed. In medium plus 12% sucrose about 45% of the protoplasts divided but in medium plus 24% sucrose far fewer divided. Cytokinesis was abnormal: the phragmoplast disappeared soon after cytokinesis began and the cell plate became a groove and then a fibril-lined or filled tongue which progressed across the vacuole, unconnected by strands to other parts of the protoplast. The wall regenerated after several days culture in medium plus 12% sucrose fluoresced with calcofluor. The wall regenerated in medium with 24% sucrose fluoresced usually only after several weeks culture. Cytokinesis hastened formation of a wall fluorescing with calcofluor. In the electron microscope the wall was seen to contain fibrils and non-fibrillar material. The latter was the minor component in medium plus 12% sucrose but was usually the major component in medium plus 24% sucrose. The growth in plasmolysing and nonplasmolysing medium of the cells from which protoplasts are isolated was also studied.
It appears that loss of the wall alters the potential of protoplasts to expand and possibly also to regenerate a wall and to divide. Wall regeneration is initially linked with expansion and cytokinesis. Osmotic pressure of the external medium is also an important factor.
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This work formed part of a thesis by one of us (R.S.P.) approved for the degree of Ph. D. in the University of Nottingham. The work was supported by the Agricultural Research Council.
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Pearce, R.S., Cocking, E.C. Behaviour in culture of isolated protoplasts from “Paul's scarlet” rose suspension culture cells. Protoplasma 77, 165–180 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01276755
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