Abstract
The aim of this paper was to develop a protocol for efficient storage of artificial seeds of Taraxacum pieninicum, critically endangered Asteraceae species. Storage under reduced light conditions or in the darkness was tested on a basis of synthetic seeds ability to conversion and post-storage regrowth of shoot tips. The results indicated that synseeds obtained from shoot tips of T. pieninicum can be stored at 4 °C even for 12 months without subculture. The light is a stress factor during storage what was manifested by numerous necrosis and decreased shoots ability to proliferate in optimal growth conditions in 1st subculture. Additionally our results showed that the storage does not produce genetic variation at the resolution provided by the flow cytometry and RAPD analysis.
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Introduction
The world’s biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate every year. Over 5000 of plant species are listed as critically endangered (IUCN 2017). Conservation in the field shows major drawbacks (e.g. requirement of a large amount of area, exposure to disease or herbivores attack), which limit its efficacy and threaten the safety of plant genetic resources conserved in this way (Engelmann 2011). In vitro technique enables efficient short- or long-term storage, especially useful for the biodiversity protection by conservation of endangered species genome. However, in vitro micropropagation needs subcultures after each 4 weeks fraught with the risk of contamination and loss of culture. Slow growth procedures allow plant conservation without passages even for few years, depending on the species (Cruz-Cruz et al. 2013).
The synthetic seed technology is designed to combine the advantages of clonal propagation with those of seed propagation and storage. Synthetic seeds are defined as artificially encapsulated plant tissue that can be used for sowing as a seed and that possess the ability to convert into a whole plant under in vitro conditions, and that retain this potential also after storage (Ara et al. 1999). Combinations of sodium alginate and calcium chloride concentrations result in a synseeds with different texture, shape and transparency. The alginate coating behaves like an artificial endosperm, which enables uptake of nutrients to the explant during re-growth in optimal conditions (Ahmed et al. 2015).
In spite of many advantages, culture in vitro may be associated with variation among obtained plants, named somaclonal variation. It is a random phenomenon, which can affect any region of the genome and can be exhibited at various levels, including phenotypical, cytological, biochemical and genetic/epigenetic (Krishna et al. 2016). Detection and characterization of somaclonal variants is carried out by analyzing the morphology of plants (Pérez et al. 2011), the structure and number of chromosomes (Currais et al. 2013), the profile of protein (Yaacob et al. 2013) or DNA content of the cells (Jin et al. 2008). It is assumed that factor affecting cell cycle may increase the probability of somaclonal variation. Physical parameters (temperature, light intensity, photoperiod) and chemical agents (plant hormones, mainly cytokines and some osmoprotectants) are capable of causing a somaclonal variation. However, the most common factors affecting somaclonal variation are genotype, explant source and period of in vitro culture (Bordallo et al. 2004).
Taraxacum pieninicum Pawł. is probably the oldest endemic plant occurring in the Pieniny Mountains (Poland). This species is one of the Asteraceae family members, the largest family of flowering plants in the world. Karyological research have shown that this species has a diploid (2n = 16) set of chromosomes (Małecka 1961). T. pieninicum reproduces sexually but it is also capable of vegetative reproduction (Kula et al. 2013). Factors such as a small number of individuals and limited seeds germination due to the feeding of invertebrates, in particular snails, are a threat to the survival of this species. In addition, the seeds of Taraxacum species are difficult to store because germination of seeds occurs immediately after maturation and seeds lose their vitality significantly after 2 years of storage (Tas and Van Dijk 1999; Honek et al. 2005).
In the previous studies the protocol for efficient in vitro multiplication and procedure for shoot tips storage of this species at 10 °C were developed (Trejgell et al. 2013; Kamińska et al. 2016) However, despite the low storage temperature, shoot growth has not been sufficiently inhibited, which has negatively affected the quality of the stored material. The aim of the current study was to inhibit T. pieninicum shoots growth by lowering the temperature to 4 °C and to limit damage of meristem through alginate-encapsulation of the shoot tips. Assessment of ploidy stability and clonal fidelity of the plants stored and converted from synseeds has been attempted using flow cytometry and RAPD.
Materials and methods
Plant material and culture conditions
The study was carried out on the T. pieninicum microshoots, which were obtained from axillary buds on shoot tips. Shoot tips were subcultured every 4 weeks on basal MS medium supplemented with 3% sucrose, 1.11 μM BA, 0.14 μM NAA and 0.8% agar. The pH of the medium was adjusted to 5.8 before autoclaving. Cultures were incubated in continuous white fluorescent light (80 μmol·m−2·s−1) at 26 ± 1 °C (optimal growth conditions described by Trejgell et al. 2013).
Encapsulation of explants
Microshoots (4 ± 1 mm long) were aseptically excised from the shoots cluster (Fig. 1a) and their leaf blades were removed. The shoot tips were then coated with 3% sodium alginate (Sigma-Aldrich) prepared in liquid MS medium. Encapsulation was accomplished by dropping the explants individually into sterile100 mM CaCl2·2H2O (Duchefa Biochemie) solution using a pipette and polymerized for 25 min. Encapsulated shoot tips were retrieved from the calcium chloride solution using sterile sieve, washed with sterile distilled water and dried on a sterile filter (Fig. 1b).
Cold-storage conditions
The synthetic seeds were transferred into Magenta® box containing 50 ml MS medium supplemented with 3% sucrose, 0.8% agar, without plant growth regulators and stored under continuous white fluorescent light (40 μmol·m−2·s−1) or in darkness at 4 ± 1 °C for 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. Non-stored synthetic seeds were used as control.
Post-storage regrowth
Synthetic seeds converted into plantlets during cold-storage. The visual rating of the stored shoots was evaluated directly after cold treatment. Shoots were rated on the scale from 0 to 5, on the basis of plant appearance (modified scale from Reed 1992, for details see Trejgell et al. 2015). Shoot tips from converted plants were transferred on fresh MS medium with full-strength nutrients supplemented with 3% sucrose, 1.11 μM BA, 0.14 μM NAA and 0.8% agar in optimal growth conditions and subcultured twice. The survival rate (the number of shoots which visually did not exhibit complete necrosis after cold-storage and were able to conversion per one repetition) and proliferation rate (number of shoots per explant) were evaluated after 4-week subculture.
For acclimatization the obtained shoots were transferred onto rooting medium (MS without plant hormones). Ability of shoots to root was analyzed on the base of number of roots per shoot after 4 weeks, whereupon 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 the plantlets were transferred to field conditions.
Flow cytometry analysis
Ploidy level of plantlets after acclimatization to field conditions was evaluated using flow cytometry. Young plants leaves of each variant were placed in a glass Petri dish (10–15 mg) and 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. Ploidy level was analyzed using a flow cytometer BD FACSAria™ III (BD Biosciences), which incorporates 3 air-cooled lasers at 488, 633, and 407 nm wavelengths, and equipped with BD FACSDiva™ software. A minimum of 10,000 events were analyzed per sample. The control sample from T. pieninicum (the plant conventionally cultivated in soil) was used to set the diploid gate. Data collected included one-parameter histograms of cellular fluorescent intensities.
RAPD analysis
Randomly chosen plants after acclimatization were chosen to RAPD analysis. Young leaves of plants (125 mg) acclimatized after cold storage lasting 9 and 12 months were frozen in liquid nitrogen, and DNA isolation was performed using modified Doyle and Doyle (1987) methodology based on CTAB extraction buffer. Plants germinated from natural seeds and grown in pots were used as a control. The reaction mixture for PCR (25 μl) contained: 1× Optimized DyNAzyme buffer (1.5 mM MgCl2), 200 μM each dNTP, 0.5 μM primer, 50 mg DNA and 1 unit of DyNAzyme II DNA Polymerase (Fermentas). Analysis was performed using 30 oligonucleotide (decamer) primers (Table 1). PCR reactions were carried out in a thermocycler (Eppendorf AG 22331, Hamburg, Germany) with an initial denaturation of the DNA at 94 °C for 2 min and then 35 cycles of amplification consisting of denaturation at 94 °C for 30 s, primer annealing at Tm calculated for each primer for 30 s and primer extension at 72 °C for 2 min. The final extension was performed at 72 °C for 7 min. The PCR products were electrophoresed in 1% agarose gel (carried out at 100 V) using 1× TBE running buffer and SYBR® Green I. The size of amplicons was visualized under UV light and estimated using DNA ladder (100–10,000 bp). Only clear and reproducible bands were taken into account in the analysis.
Data collection and statistical analysis
The microshoots were evaluated at 3 month intervals. In each variant of storage 4 replicates of 16 encapsulated shoot tips were used. Proliferation rate in 1st subculture (an average shoots formed per explant) was obtained for shoots that survived the cold treatment for 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. Proliferation rate in 2nd subculture and rooting rate were evaluated for 12 explants in each replicate. Data were expressed as mean ± standard error (SE). Normality of variances was verified using the Shapiro–Wilk test. To examine significant differences among the treatments Kruskal–Wallis test at p ≤ 0.05 was then performed, because of a non-normal distribution of the data in most treatments. Flow cytometry analyses were carried out in three replicates of the independent plants, while RAPD were performed for three random plants in two independent analyses.
Results
The survival and visual rates of cold-stored explants
Synthetic seeds of T. pieninicum showed high visual rate immediately after encapsulation but shoot tips lost their viability over time under optimal conditions. Non-stored synseeds were able to conversion into the whole plant only in 46.7 ± 4.5% (Fig. 2). However, cold-storage regardless of the duration increased survival by stimulation of the conversion and it was reported that from 70.0 to 96.7% of synseeds were able to develop into plantlets. Survival was not statistically significant affected by storage time and light conditions during cold treatment.
Plants obtained from non-stored synthetic seeds given a visual rating of 5, based on Reed’s scale, but decreasing with the duration of storage (Fig. 3). At light conditions this value decreased significantly in the following months up to the value of 1.7 ± 0.2 after 12 months of cold-storage (Figs. 1c, 3). Whereas condition of plants converted from synseeds stored in darkness was rated at 3.8 ± 0.2 and prolonged storage did not significantly influence this value (Figs. 1d, 3).
Regrowth of cold stored shoots
Shoots after storage at 4 °C for 3, 6, 9 and 12 months in dark and at light conditions were regrown in optimal growth conditions on MS medium supplemented with 1.1 μM BA and 0.14 μM NAA. Storage at light conditions decreased shoot tips ability to proliferate in first subculture, regardless of the length of storage period (Figs. 1e, 4a) and the differences were statistically significant to control. Proliferation was not affected by storage in the dark and the number of shoots per explant ranged from 14.8 ± 1.3 (after 3 months) to 12.2 ± 1.2 (after 12 months) and was comparable to the control, where 12.3 ± 0.8 shoots per explant were noted (Figs. 1f, 4a). Significant differences were noted between storage under light and in dark after each time of storage.
In the second subculture, lower proliferation rates compared to non-chilled were recorded only for 3 months storage and 6 months under light conditions (Fig. 4b), differences were statistically significant. Proliferation ability of shoot tips stored for 6 months in the dark and longer (regardless of the storage duration and the light conditions) was comparable with control plants. After 12 months of cold treatment under light and in the dark proliferation rate was 18.5 ± 1.5 and 17.2 ± 1.2 shoots per explant, respectively.
Shoots obtained in 2nd subculture of regrowth were able to root (Fig. 5). The number of roots per shoot ranged from 0.9 ± 0.2 to 1.9 ± 0.2 and the differences were not statistically significant in compare to results obtained for the control variants except shoots after storage in the dark for 3 months. All rooted shoots were acclimatized to ex vitro conditions, 100% of plantlets survived transfer to field conditions.
Flow cytometry and RAPD analysis
The DNA content of the plants stored for 9 and 12 months at 4 °C was measured by flow cytometry to determine the ploidy level in plant material after cold storage. Leaves of control plants have a 2C DNA (G0/G1 phase) and 4C DNA (G2 phase of cells divisions). The results indicated that plants regenerated following the longest time of storage had the same ploidy level as control plants, independently of the light conditions (Fig. 6), so it can be concluded that slowing down and speeding up metabolism of T. pieninicum during cold-storage and regrowth, respectively, did not interfere with cell division. Furthermore, RAPD analysis was performed to verify the genetic stability of regrown plantlets after cold storage. In the initial screening 30 primers were used with the DNA of control plants and 21 primers were selected for further analysis. The 21 RAPD primers used yielded 67 scorable bands (Table 1). The size of amplified fragments ranged from 600 to 3000 bp. All regenerants from encapsulated and stored shoot tips were genetically similar to the plants non-cultured, cultivated in conventional conditions in pots. Examples of RAPD amplifications are shown in Fig. 7, representing band patterns obtained with primers No. 16 and 19.
Discussion
The relatively low conversion rate of control plants (non-cold stored) can refer to the conditions prevailing in the natural environmental of this species. Seeds of many alpine species have mechanisms that protect seeds from germination in autumn (Graae et al. 2008). The most prevalent mechanism is physiological dormancy, resulting from the high abscisic acid (ABA):gibberellic acid (GA) ratio in embryo tissue. Such seeds require stratification, which reduces the ABA concentration, stimulates synthesis of GA and thus enables germination (Finch-Savage and Leubner-Metzger 2006). Cold storage of T. pieninicum was preceded by encapsulation of shoot tips isolated from the cluster, but the isolation and preparation of artificial seeds were stress factors that probably led to ABA synthesis in isolated tissue, which inhibited the conversion of synseeds after direct transfer to optimal conditions. Low temperature during storage stimulates ABA (Kamińska et al. 2016) and GA biosynthesis (Yamauchi et al. 2004). However, on the basis of our results we can presume that light during storage is more stressful than darkness and leads to greater increase in ABA level and thereby to increase the ABA:GA ratio. In darkness the supposed lower ABA:GA ratio might increase survival and proliferation rate of stored synseeds. Similar results were obtained with kiwifruit synthetic seeds, where cold treatment given to encapsulated apical and axillary buds increased their viability and regrowth comparing to non-cold stored synseeds (Adriani et al. 2010).
Cold is the simplest and most efficient method to slow in vitro growth. According to most studies, storage at 4 °C is most suitable for many species. In the case of Dalbergia sissoo storage lasted 4 weeks (Chand and Singh 2004), Quercus robur and Quercus cerris 6 weeks (Tsvetkov and Hausman 2005), Eclipta alba and Withania somnifera 8 weeks (Singh et al. 2006, 2010). In this paper synseeds were successfully stored even for 12 months, as in the case of shoot apices of Pistacia vera encapsulated with addition of sucrose in artificial endosperm. Similarly as in that study better condition of plants was observed after 9 and 12 months of storage at 4 °C in comparison to 3 and 6 months. It could be due to adaptation of microshoots to low-temperature conditions (Akdemir et al. 2013).
Synseeds storage in dark was more suitable on the basis of our results of survival, visual and proliferation rate. The same result was obtained for storage of T. pieninicum shoot tips without alginate coat (Kamińska et al. 2016). However, alginate coat improved conditions of the stored plants, what was manifested by better visual rating of the stored material compared to non-capsulated, confirming the protective role of the artificial seed structure. The value of proliferation rate, despite the prolonged storage period to 1 year, remained stable in the dark, indicating the possibility of further extending the cold-storage of the synseeds. Similarly, Mallus sp. rootstocks (Orlikowska 1992), Prunus armeniac shoot tips (Pérez-Tornero et al. 1999), rootstocks of different species of Prunus (Marino et al. 1985) were best preserved in the dark. Necrosis and browning observed during cold storage under light conditions were less pronounced in darkness in Populus tremula × Populus tremuloides shoots (Hausman et al. 1994) and Quercus suber shoots (Romano and Martins-Loução 1999). Adaptation to cold and to the presence or absence of light is also genotype-dependent. Storage at4 °C in darkness was effective for plum genotypes like cv. Ariddu di Core and Sanacore but less so for the cv. Marabolo and Rapparino varieties (Gianní and Sottile 2015). Darkness had a positive effect on the regrowth of the Vitis berlandieri × V. riparia after 3, 6, and 9 months of 4 °C storage in alginate beads (Benelli 2016).
A major problem in in vitro culture is the possibility of the occurrence of somaclonal variation that can result in obtaining different clones from the mother plant. In this study flow cytometry analysis was performed due to the fact that slow-growth storage and further regrowth on MS medium supplemented with BA may lead to abnormalities that change the amount of DNA in the cells. However, our results indicated that all the regenerants had the same ploidy level, irrespective of the storage treatment. The same results were obtained for shoot tips cold-stored for 9 months without artificial seed covering (Kamińska et al. 2016). Similarly Skene et al. (1988) reported that storage at 9.5 °C of multiple shoot cultures of eight Vitis genotypes for over 12 months did not affect the ploidy level of regenerated plants. Ploidy variations such as mixoploidy or poliploidy were reported in long term callus and somatic embryo cultures (Endemann et al. 2001).
Our results also showed that the storage does not produce genetic variation at the resolution provided by the RAPD analysis with 21 randomly primers. This research is consistent with reports of genetic stability (RAPD) of stored synthetic seed derived plants of Ananus comosus after 2 months at 8 °C (Gangopadhyay et al. 2005), Cineraria maritime after 6 months at 25 ± 2 °C (Srivastava et al. 2009), Cannabis sativa after 6 months at 5, 15 and 25 °C (Lata et al. 2011), Picrorhiza kurrooa after 3 months at 25 ± 2 °C (Mishra et al. 2011), Glycyrrhiza glabra after 6 months at 25 ± 2 °C (Mehrotra et al. 2012) and Ocimum kilimandscharicum after 3 months at 4 and 25 °C (Saha et al. 2015). Hao and Deng (2003) noted that AFLP assay found no genetic variations between non-stored and stored at 4 °C for 1 year shoot tips of Malus pumila cv. Gala. However, slow growth storage resulted in a significant DNA methylation changes. In contrast, high propability of genetic instability was observed after 12 months of storage at 4° of Pistacia lentiscus (Koç et al. 2014).
It is considered that the axillary buds and shoot tips are the most stable genetically. In turn, high probability of genetic change occurs in callus and protoplast culture (Krishna et al. 2016). However, irrespective of the source of plant material, somaclonal variation cannot be excluded, as it was demonstrated in study on Camellia sinensis and C. assamica, in which organized meristem cultures were not always genetically true-to-type (Devarumath et al. 2002). Also Evans (1988) reported considerable variation in adventitious Nicotiana alata plants regenerated directly from leaf explants without a callus intermediate. Although in cold storage growth of the explants is slowed down, prolonged exposure to low temperature may cause stress especially to thermophilic species. Generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) during exposure to cold stress can also lead to somaclonal variation (Cassells and Curry 2001).
Conclusion
This is the first report of genetically sustainable synseeds production of T. pieninicum using shoot tips. Applied conditions provide a promising, cost-effective and time-saving method for an active protection of this species. Successful plant retrieval from synseeds following 12-months storage at 4 °C indicates that protocol described in this paper could be used to long-term preservation of the T. pieninicum germplasm. The protocol described here could also serve as a first step for optimization of in vitro conservation of other endangered species from Asteraceae family.
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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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MK designed and carried out all the experiments, analysed the data and wrote the manuscript, AT designed the experiments and carried out an analysis of the flow cytometer, analysed the data and wrote the manuscript, MG helped in analysis of the flow cytometer, and AT helped in RAPD analysis.
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Kamińska, M., Gołębiewski, M., Tretyn, A. et al. Efficient long-term conservation of Taraxacum pieninicum synthetic seeds in slow growth conditions. Plant Cell Tiss Organ Cult 132, 469–478 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11240-017-1343-z
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