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Cell differentiation, secondary cell-wall formation and transformation of callus tissue of Pinus radiata D. Don

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Tracheid and sclereid differentiation was induced in callus cultures of Pinus radiata D. Don by culturing on a basal medium containing activated charcoal but no phytohormones; sclereids differentiated in callus derived from xylem strips, but not in callus derived from hypocotyl segments. The tracheids differentiated in hypocotyl-derived callus had helical, scalariform, reticulated or pitted secondary cell-wall patterns, but those differentiated in xylem-derived callus had a reticulate or pitted pattern. The thickened tracheid and sclereid walls contained lignin as indicated by the red colour reaction given with phloroglucinol–HCl. The presence of lignin in the cell walls of differentiated callus was confirmed using pyrolysis gas chromatography–mass spectrometry by the detection of phenylpropanoid components derived from lignin. Lignin was also detected using solid-state 13C cross-polarisation/magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and quantified as thioglycolic acid lignin. Monosaccharide analyses of the cell walls isolated from differentiated and undifferentiated calli showed that the cell walls of the differentiated calli contained higher proportions of glucose and mannose, consistent with the presence of greater proportions of gluco- and/or galactogluco-mannans in the secondary cell walls of the differentiated cells. A protocol for the stable transformation of undifferentiated, xylem-derived cultures was successfully developed. Transgenic cell lines were established following Biolistic particle bombardment with a plasmid containing the coding region of the nptII gene and the coding region of the cad gene from P. radiata. Expression of the nptII gene in transgenic lines was confirmed by an NPTII–enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The overexpression of cad in the transgenic lines resulted in a down-regulation of cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.195) expression.

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Abbreviations

BAP:

6-benzylaminopurine

CAD:

cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase

CP/MAS:

cross-polarisation/magic-angle spinning

2,4-D:

2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid

NAA:

1-naphthalene acetic acid

nptII:

neomycin phosphotransferase II

PCIB:

p-chlorophenoxyisobutyric acid

PVPP:

polyvinyl polypyrrolidone

SPE:

single-pulse excitation

TGAL:

thioglycolic acid lignin

TFA:

trifluoroacetic acid

TIBA:

2,3,5-triiodobenzoic acid.

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R.M. acknowledges Forest Research, Rotorua, New Zealand for financial support. We thank N. Cranshaw, L. Donaldson, L. Grace, S. Hill, A. Singh, J. Smith, D. Steward, and A. Wagner for their help and advice.

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    Ralf Möller, Armando G. McDonald & Christian Walter

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Möller, R., McDonald, A.G., Walter, C. et al. Cell differentiation, secondary cell-wall formation and transformation of callus tissue of Pinus radiata D. Don. Planta 217, 736–747 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-003-1053-0

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