Abstract
In vitro selection was carried out to obtain ethionine-resistant plants with increased contents of free methionine in the vegetative tissues of the forage legume Astragalus adsurgens Pall. Three-week-old cell colonies were derived from protoplasts mutagenized with N-methyl-N-nitrosoguanidine from embryogenic callus and were selected with 0.6 mM ethionine. Four colony lines were isolated and their resistance to ethionine was 7–8 times that of the wild-type callus. No plant regeneration occurred on these colony lines in the differentiation medium containing ethionine. Only one colony line (R-1) regenerated plants through somatic embryogenesis in the absence of ethionine. Stem and leaf segments from the regenerated plants showed the same potential to produce callus in the presence of ethionine as in the absence of ethionine. The formed callus kept continuously growing in ethionine-containing medium. Free amino acid analysis revealed that colony line R-1, its regenerated plants and callus from the regenerated plants accumulated methionine at levels at 5–9 times higher than in wild-type. These results suggested that ethionine resistance and methionine over-accumulation were also expressed at plant level. Thus, the obtained resistant colony line that could regenerate plants with over-accumulation of methionine might provide an alternative approach to improve the nutritional quality of this forage.
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Abbreviations
- BA:
-
6-benzyladenine
- 2,4-d:
-
2,4-dichlorophenoxy acetic acid
- ETH:
-
ethionine
- NTG:
-
N-methyl-N-nitrosoguanidine
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Luo, JP., Zha, XQ. & Shi, W. Selection of ethionine-resistant variants with increased accumulation of methionine from embryogenic protoplasts of the forage legume Astragalus adsurgens. Plant Cell Tiss Organ Cult 82, 75–81 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11240-004-6913-1
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