Abstract
Taraxacum pieninicum is an extremely threatened species. It seems that traditional protection methods of this species are insufficient and it is necessary to use biotechnology tools that allow the in vitro storage of plant material. The present study describes in vitro conservation of T. pieninicum by slow-growth storage. Various light conditions and abscisic acid (ABA) treatments and combinations thereof were tested. Viability, proliferation rate and ability of shoots to root were evaluated during regrowth. Moreover, the effect of shoot storage conditions on the ABA level was analysed. The results showed that light during 3-months’ storage increased the level of endogenous ABA. Similar results were observed when storage at a low temperature was prolonged to 9 months. Changes in ABA level had a negative effect on shoot condition. However, these changes were related to leaves and did not affect the ability of shoot tips to proliferate after long-term storage. Addition of ABA to storage medium increased several folds the level of ABA in plant tissues, which resulted in a reduction in the visual rating and proliferation rate. Shoots obtained after post-storage regrowth were able to root. All rooted shoots survived adaptation to field conditions and were able to flower in the second year after acclimatization. The analysis of DNA content indicated that all the regenerants had the same ploidy level independent of treatments during storage. Cold storage of T. pieninicum as used in this study enabled the interval between subcultures to be extended to 9 months.
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Introduction
Taraxacum pieninicum Pawł. (Asteraceae) is probably the oldest endemite of the Pieniny Mountains (Poland). The present population of T. pieninicum consists of two clusters of a small number of individuals. This species is listed as critically endangered (CR), and even as declining—critically endangered (E) on Polish red lists (Zarzycki and Szeląg 2006; Wróbel and Zarzycki 2008). Protection of T. pieninicum involves constant monitoring of its natural habitat as well as protection of the gene pool in the Seed Bank of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) Botanical Garden—Center for Biological Diversity Conservation (CBDC) in Powsin, Warsaw. However, the availability of seeds is very limited. Additionally, a protocol for in vitro micropropagation of T. pieninicum has been developed (Trejgell et al. 2013). However, plant propagation through tissue culture requires transfer to fresh medium every 3 weeks, thus the procedure is laborious, costly and fraught with the risk of somaclonal variation and microbiological contamination. Therefore, it seems to be reasonable to develop a method of cultivating T. pieninicum at minimal growth conditions, which will lead to an increase in the intervals between subcultures and reduce the risk of changes in the genetic material.
Slow growth
In vitro techniques used to achieve short- or medium-term conservation allow the storage of plant material from several months to a few years without subculture, depending on the technique used and on the plant material (Cruz-Cruz et al. 2013).
Slow growth is usually achieved by modifying the environmental and/or culture medium. A widely used technique is the reduction of temperature, which can be combined with a decrease in light intensity or by keeping cultures in complete darkness (Engelmann 2011). Storage temperature is closely related to the origin of plants: temperate species may be stored at 4 °C, whereas tropical plants require temperatures in the range of 15–20 °C, which is associated with their sensitivity to reduced temperatures. Slow growth can also be achieved by lowering the oxygen concentration by covering explants with a layer of liquid medium or mineral oil, or by placing them in a controlled atmosphere (Paunescu 2009). Another technique involves modification of the medium including a reduction in mineral and sugar concentration, changes in the concentration of growth regulators and/or addition of osmotic agents and growth retardants (Engelmann 2011). Growth retardants are natural or synthetic chemical substances that can be directly applied on plants to change structural or vital processes by modifying hormone balance. Growth retardants act as chemical signallers in the regulation of plant growth and development. They usually bind to receivers in the plant and initiate a series of cell changes that can affect the initiation or modification of organ or tissue development (Espindula et al. 2009). Growth retardants include abscisic acid, maleic hydrazide, N-dimethylaminosuccinamic acid, phosphon D and acetylsalicylic acid (Gopal et al. 2002).
The objective of this study was to (1) develop a protocol for in vitro shoot tips storage of Taraxacum pieninicum and (2) to analyse the impact of light conditions and ABA during storage on post-storage regrowth.
Materials and methods
Plant material and culture conditions
The seeds came from the collection of the Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden—Center for Biological Diversity Conservation in Powsin (Poland). They were surface-disinfected with 70 % (v/v) ethanol for 30 s and then 20 % (v/v) commercial bleach (Domestos®) for 20 min. Then they were washed 4 times with sterile distilled water. Shoot tips were isolated from a few-day-old sterile seedlings and were cultivated on MS (Murashige and Skoog 1962) medium supplemented with 3 % sucrose, 0.8 % agar and 1.1 μM BAP and 0.14 μM NAA. The pH of the medium was adjusted to 5.8 before autoclaving. The explants were cultivated in 100 ml Erlenmeyer flasks containing 30 ml proliferation medium for 4 weeks under continuous white fluorescent light (80 μmol m−2 s−1) at 26 ± 1 °C (optimal growth conditions). The material to storage was isolated from individual shoots, which were excised from obtained shoot clusters.
Storage conditions
The shoot tips were deposited in polycarbonate Magenta® boxes with a polypropylene cover that contained 50 ml half-strength MS nutrient medium (1/2MS) supplemented with 3 % sucrose, 0.8 % agar and with or without 5 μM ABA. Non-stored shoot tips were used as control. The experiment was conducted in darkness or in continuous white fluorescent light (40 μmol m−2 s−1) at 10 °C for 3, 6 or 9 months.
Data collection
The microshoots were evaluated at 3 month intervals. Analysis of viability and the visual rating of stored shoots were evaluated directly after transfer to optimal growth conditions. Shoots were rated on the scale from 0 to 5, on the basis of plant appearance (modified scale, Reed 1992): 0—dead shoot, all brown, 1—shoot mostly brown, only extreme shoot tips visibly yellow, 2—shoot yellow–brown, 3—shoot with etiolated tips, base of stem brown, 4—shoot with etiolation, 5—shoot bright green. Some of the stored shoots were analysed in terms of endogenous ABA content, while the rest of the shoots were subcultured twice on MS medium with full-strength nutrients supplemented with 3 % sucrose, 1.11 μM BAP, 0.14 μM NAA and 0.8 % agar under continuous white fluorescent light (80 μmol m−2 s−1) at 26 ± 1 °C. The proliferation rate was evaluated after each 4-week subculture. The obtained shoots were transferred onto rooting medium (MS without plant hormones). The percentage of rooted shoots and the number of roots per shoot were recorded after 4 weeks of culture. The plantlets were removed from the Magenta® boxes, washed gently with sterile water, transferred to plastic pots containing a sterile mixture of vermiculite and sand (1:1 v/v), and covered with transparent boxes to maintain humidity (60–70 %). After 8 weeks of acclimatization survival rates were noted, and then the plantlets were transferred to field conditions. The survival level, the ability to flower and relative nuclear DNA content were analysed in second year after acclimatization.
Measurement of endogenous ABA
Axillary shoots of T. pieninicum (2 g) were frozen in liquid N2 and homogenized in a chilled mortar with a pestle. Free ABA was extracted with 80 % methanol (v/v) in two parts of 15 cm3 each. [6–2H3]ABA (100 ng) was added to the extract as an internal standard. The extract was reduced to the aqueous phase, acidified to pH 2.0 with 12 M HCl and centrifuged at 10,000g for 30 min to remove chlorophyll. The supernatant was partitioned three times against ethyl acetate, and dried under vacuum. The pellet was dissolved in formic acid buffer (pH 7-8) and applied to a DOWEX 50 ion exchange column. The column was washed in H2O until pH 7.0. Samples were eluted two times with 2 cm3 of solution containing 0.2 M formic acid and 50 % methanol (v/v). The eluate was evaporated and further purified by HPLC using a SUPELCOSIL ABZ + PLUS column (250 × 4.5 mm, 5 μm particle size; Supelco Inc., USA). The samples were dissolved in 0.2 cm3 of 20 % methanol (v/v) and chromatographed with a linear gradient of 20–80 % methanol in 1 % formic acid (v/v) in 20 min, flow rate 1.0 cm3/min at temperature 22°C. The fractions collected at 12.57 ± 0.5 min were evaporated to dryness, methylated with diazomethane, dissolved in 0.1 cm3 of methanol and analysed by GC–MS–SIM (Auto-System XL coupled to a Turbo Mass, Perkin-Elmer, USA) using a MDN-5 column (30 m × 0.25 mm, 0.25 μm phase thickness, Supelco Inc., USA). The GC temperature programme was 120 °C for 1 min, 120–250°C at 10 °C/min, flow rate 1.5 cm3/min, injection port was 280 °C, electron potential 70 eV. The retention times of ABA and [6-2H3]ABA were 14.07 and 14.3 min, respectively. GC–MS–SIM was performed by monitoring m/z 162 and 190 for endogenous ABA and 166 and 194 for [6-2H3]ABA according to the method described by Vine et al. (1987).
Measurement of relative nuclear DNA content
DNA content of plantlets after a year of acclimatization to field conditions was evaluated using flow cytometry. Approximately 10–15 mg of young leaves from 3 independent plants of each variant was placed in a 60 mm glass Petri dish. Lysis buffer (45 mM MgCl2, 30 mM sodium citrate, 20 mM 4-morpholinepropane sulphonic acid—MOPS, 0.1 % Triton X-100 in distilled water, pH 7.0) (Galbraith et al. 1983) was added to the plant material. The tissue was chopped with a razor blade to release nuclei. Individual samples were then filtered to remove debris with a pre-separation filter 30 μm nylon mesh (Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, Germany) into 5 ml tubes. The nuclei suspension (1.5 ml) was stained with 30 µl of a 2 % propidium iodide (PI) solution. Each sample was gently mixed and incubated for 10 min at room temperature. Aliquots (50 µl) of stained nuclei were mixed and ploidy was analysed using a flow cytometer MACS Quant (Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, Germany) equipped with an air-cooled laser (488 nm, fluorescence channel 4), and MACSQuantify™ software (Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, Germany). In total, the fluorescence of at least 10,000 nuclei was analysed in each sample. Nuclei were gated on the basis of linear plots of PI fluorescence and side scatter area (PI-lin vs. SSC-A). Doublets were excluded using a forward height/forward area scatter plot (FSC-H vs. FSC-A). The control sample from T. pieninicum (the plant of known diploid DNA content) was used to set the diploid gate.
Data analysis
In each variant of storage 32 microshoots were used (16 shoot tips in each magenta). The experiments were conducted twice. Proliferation rate (an average shoots formed per explant) was obtained for shoots that survived the cold treatment for 3 and 9 months, while the rooting rate was calculated for 24 shoots. Data were expressed as mean ± standard error (SE) and analysed by two-way ANOVA. Data concerning the amount of endogenous ABA were expressed as mean ± standard deviation (SD). To examine significant differences among the treatments Tukey’s multiple range test at p < 0.05 was then performed.
Results
Morphological analysis of stored material
Shoot tips used in the experiment were the same size and healthy (Fig. 1a) and given a visual rating of 5 on establishment of culture, based on Reed’s scale, decreasing with the duration of storage. The highest value was recorded for the cultures stored in dark on medium without ABA (Fig. 2). Light during storage on this medium decreased value of the visual rating of shoots. The addition of ABA to the medium also led to lower value of the parameter. After 9 months of storage the recorded visual rating decreased statistically significantly from 2.6 to 1.0 in the dark and from 1.2 to 0.6 at light condition (Fig. 2).
Regrowth of stored shoots
Shoots after 3 and 9 months of storage at 10 °C in dark and at light conditions on medium with or without ABA (Fig. 1b, c) were regrown under optimal conditions on medium supplemented with 1.1 μM BAP and 0.14 μM NAA. Number of shoots per explants recorded after regrowth (1st subculture) following 3 months of storage ranged from 8.9 to 13.6; the differences were not statistically significant and proliferation rates were comparable to results obtained during the propagation of the control material (Fig. 3a). After the second subculture proliferation rates were higher only for material storage on medium without ABA both in light and in the dark (15.5 and 12.6, respectively) but the differences were not statistically significant in compare to result obtained for shoots without cold-storage (Fig. 3b). Extension of the storage to 9 months did not reduce significantly shoots proliferation and those were comparable to results obtained during the propagation of the material without low temperature storage (Figs. 1d, 3a, b). Reducing the shoots number per explant was recorded only during 1st subculture of regrowth in the case of shoots stored on medium with ABA in dark. While the increase of the proliferation rate (20.6) was achieved for shoots stored on medium without ABA in light condition in 1st subculture, the difference were statistically significant in comparison to shoots cold-stored for 3 months and non-stored (Fig. 3a; Table 1). Also, in the second subculture of shoots stored for 9 months on medium without ABA the observed proliferation rates had the highest value, and was 22.8 when storage was carried out in the dark and 20.4 in light conditions (Fig. 3b). After the second passage, it was found that the material stored for 9 months on medium without ABA regardless of the light conditions and on medium with ABA in the dark propagated better in comparison to shoots stored for 3 months, and the differences were statistically significant, but in relation to non-stored shoots differences were not statistically significant (Fig. 3b; Table 2).
ABA level in stored plants
The level of endogenous ABA in the tissue of T. pieninicum shoots after 3 months of storage in darkness was comparable to tissue not stored at low temperature. By contrast the storage in light conditions resulted in a 2.5-fold increase in ABA level (Fig. 4). Extension of the storage to 9 months caused an increase in the level of ABA independent of the light conditions (Fig. 4).
Addition of ABA to storage-medium resulted in an eightfold increase in the level of ABA in shoots of T. pieninicum after 3 months and a tenfold increase after 9 months of storage in comparison to tissue storage on medium without ABA (Fig. 5).
Rooting of the regrown shoots and acclimatization
Shoots from the 2nd subculture of regrowth were isolated and transferred to rooting medium (MS without plant regulators). Rooting of shoots stored on medium without ABA in the dark and with ABA in light for 3 months was effective, shoots were able to produce root with an average 1.5 and 0.8 roots per shoot, respectively (Fig. 1e). Percentage of rooted shoots (75 % and more) was comparable to the values obtained for non-stored plants. However, storage during 3 months on medium without ABA in light conditions and with ABA in dark inhibited rooting of shoots, the differences were statistically significant in comparison to shoots non cold-stored (Fig. 6), only 25 % shoots were rooted. Extension of the storage to 9 months did not inhibit this process. In the case of shoots stored in light on medium without ABA and in dark on medium with ABA rooting was even more efficient than after 3 months stored, the differences were statistically significant (Figs. 1f, 6). Addition of ABA to the medium during cold storage followed by dark conditions meaningfully reduced rooting of shoots, but this effect was observed only for shoots stored for 3 months; the differences were statistically significant. Microcuttings showed high survival during acclimatization and after 8 weeks of adaptation to soil conditions more than 90 % of individuals have displayed growth. All plantlets flowered after adaptation to field conditions over 2 years (Fig. 1g).
DNA content of stored plants
DNA content was measured by flow cytometry in plants stored for 9 months at low temperature. Data for plants obtained from shoots stored for 9 months are presented in Fig. 7. The flow cytometry results indicated that all the regenerants from material stored at low temperature and regrown on medium supplemented with 1.1 μM BAP and 0.14 μM NAA had the same ploidy level independently of the light condition and the presence of ABA in medium during storage.
Discussion
In this study we investigated optimal conditions for in vitro storage of T. pieninicum. Morphological analysis of shoots indicates that the light had a negative effect on the condition of the shoot during cold storage. However, these changes concerned leaves only, while meristems were not damaged. Similar results were obtained for the shoots of Pyrus genotypes where incubation at low temperature and light intensity resulted in yellowing of shoots, leaf size became very small but the shoot tips were quite fresh and green (Ahmed et al. 2010). In our previous studies on the storage of Senecio macrophyllus light also had a negative effect on shoots condition during storage, and addition of ABA to the medium improved their condition (Trejgell et al. 2015). Poplar shoots were in better condition after storage in the dark than under light (Hausman et al. 1994). Vigorous growth of Malus and Pistacia lentiscus after cooling was obtained also following dark storage (Orlikowska et al. 2010; Koç et al. 2014). The presence of 5 μM ABA in the medium even more decreased condition of T. pienicum shoots. In the study of the cold response of Hypericum, it was found that the supplementation of exogenous ABA to preculture medium lowered the content of water in plant tissue. However, low concentration of ABA was not sufficient to induce the low-temperature tolerance (Bruňáková et al. 2011, 2015).
Proliferation rates were comparable to results obtained during the propagation of the material without storage at low temperature (Trejgell et al. 2013). Cold storage led to an increase in the proliferation rate in Alnus glutinosa, although the proliferation returned to normal levels in subsequent subcultures (San José et al. 2014). A similar effect was obtained after storage of Podophyllum peltatum where the proliferation rate after 4 and 8 months at a temperature of 10 °C was higher than at 25 °C (Lata et al. 2010). Cold storage in the dark of apple cultures also caused an increase in adventitious shoot number (Orlikowska et al. 2010).
ABA is a well-known retardant used to increase the resistance to cold. However, in our study the presence of ABA in the medium during storage of T. pieninicum shoots at low temperatures caused a reduction in the efficiency of the multiplication of shoots after storage. Only in the case of shoots from the 1st subculture transferred after 3 months of storage under light was there no difference in effectiveness between the shoots cultured on medium with or without ABA. This may be associated with a strong increase in the level of endogenous ABA during the first three months of storage recorded only in the shoots stored in light.
However, light conditions in combination with low temperature were a stronger stress-factor leading to an increase in the level of ABA than low temperature. In the case of woody plants (e.g. Betula pendula) low temperature in combination with short day increased endogenous ABA more than continuous light (Li et al. 2002). The amount of ABA also increased in Rosa x hybrida during storage in darkness (Arve et al. 2013). A high level of ABA in stored shoots had a negative impact on both the visual rating (Fig. 2) and the rate of proliferation during regrowth (Fig. 3). Exposure of axillary buds on medium supplemented with ABA at 0.04–37.8 μM for 1–3 months also inhibited both axillary buds and root development of Ipomoea batatas. This effect was maintained up to 30 days after transfer on to medium without ABA. Rapid and normal plantlet development was observed in the following period (Jarret and Gawel 1991). Medium supplementation with 3.8–11.4 μM ABA resulted in a significant decrease in survival after cold storage of Vitis heyneana (Pan et al. 2014), Tetrastigma hemsleyanum (Peng et al. 2015) and negatively affected shoot growth of Piper aduncum and Piper hispidinervum (Silva and Scherwinski-Pereira 2011).
Endogenous ABA level might be controlled by light. ABA biosynthetic genes are highly expressed in far-red light (FR); in contrast an ABA deactivating gene is upregulated by red light (R). Light signals are transmitted to ABA—metabolic genes via phytochrome (Xu et al. 2014; Seo et al. 2009). The results of the study by Reddy et al. (2013) showed that ABA regulated bud outgrowth responses to the red light/far-red light ratio (R:FR) in Arabidopsis thaliana. ABA levels were high in axillary buds under low R:FR and decreased by high R:FR, which promoted out-growth of buds. Increasing the R:FR ratio resulted in a conformational change of phytochrome that forms the Pfr state. We suppose that the same effect was in our study during the storage under continuous light and might be a cause of a lower rate of proliferation during regrowth of T. pieninicum.
As expected, content of endogenous ABA increased substantially in shoots stored on medium with ABA. Exogenous ABA was easily absorbed by plants and this pool could be add to endogenous ABA (Pospíšilová et al. 2009). Furthermore it was higher in plants grown under light conditions than in the dark. The increase in ABA content was also observed in Nicotiana tabacum plants grown ex vitro under high irradiance (Hofman et al. 2002; Hronková et al. 2003).
The application of ABA to plants mimics the effect of a stress condition. As many abiotic stresses ultimately result in cell desiccation and osmotic imbalance, there is an overlap in the expression pattern of stress genes after cold, drought or high salt. Several studies showed that phytochromes can affect ABA levels or signalling (Piskurewicz et al. 2009; Dubois et al. 2010). Moreover, González et al. (2012) suggest that phy B plays an important role in plant drought tolerance by enhancing sensitivity to ABA when water becomes limited.
Shoots of T. pieninicum after regrowth rooted on MS medium without auxin. Many species belonging to the family Asteraceae do not require supplementation of media by auxin (Koroch et al. 2002; Trejgell et al. 2010, 2012). Light inhibited rooting, but this effect was observed only in the case of shoots cold-stored for 3 months. During this period there was a significant increase in the concentration of endogenous ABA, which could have had an impact both on the process of multiplication (Fig. 3) and rooting (Fig. 6). It is known that ABA is essential in suppressing the formation of lateral roots (Wood 1983; Deak and Malamy 2005). However, exogenous ABA did not inhibit rooting when applied at physiological concentrations (Blake and Atkinson 1986).
It is well-known that in vitro culture approaches are occasionally associated with somaclonal variation. Changes in ploidy of cells depend on the concentration of growth regulators and the length of exposure to growth regulators. Such changes were observed during the regeneration of Gentiana kurroo with protoplasts isolated from cotyledons, where 30 % of the plantlets presented a two or threefold DNA content compared to that of the control (Fiuk and Rybczyński 2007). Flow cytometry analysis of Carica papaya plantlets regenerated from immature zygotic embryos also evidenced a different DNA level (14 % of plants), which is often encountered in the regeneration via callus. However, during the multiplication stage from shoot tips of this species the DNA level remained stable (Clarindo et al. 2008). Plants propagated by induction of axillary buds from shoot tips have been comparatively genetically stable in comparison to plants obtained through adventitious regeneration methods (Ezura et al. 1997; Kanchanapoom et al. 2012; Adhikari et al. 2014). Similarly indirect somatic embryogenesis from leaf explants of Chrysanthemum morifolium (Naing et al. 2013) and Gentiana species (Fiuk and Rybczyński 2008), the plants showed the same ploidy level as donor plants. In our study all the regenerants from material stored at reduced temperature and regrown in optimal conditions had the same ploidy level, irrespective of the storage treatment.
Conclusions
The developed procedure for storage of T. pieninicum shoots at 10 °C on medium without ABA allows the period between subculture to be extended to 9 months, regardless of light conditions. Proliferation rates obtained after post-storage regrowth were comparable to results obtained during the propagation of the material without storage at low temperature. The addition of ABA to storage medium resulted in an increase in endogenous ABA levels, which negatively affected the propagation of shoots during regrowth. Plantlets obtained after regrowth had the same ploidy level as control plants, independent of treatment during storage.
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This Project was supported by funds provided by Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toruń, Poland) for the research programme of the Chair of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology.
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Monika Kamińska and Alina Trejgell designed and carried out the experiments, analysed the data and wrote the manuscript. Edyta Skrzypek carried out an analysis of the flow cytometer, Emilia Wilmowicz carried out an analysis of endogenous ABA content and Andrzej Tretyn helped in preparing the manuscript.
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Kamińska, M., Skrzypek, E., Wilmowicz, E. et al. Effect of light conditions and ABA on cold storage and post-storage propagation of Taraxacum pieninicum . Plant Cell Tiss Organ Cult 127, 25–34 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11240-016-1026-1
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