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The behavior of organelle nucleoids and cell nuclei was studied in the shoot apical meristem and developing first foliage leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana. Samples were embedded in Technovit 7100 resin, cut into thin sections and stained with 4′-6-diamidino-2-phenylindole to observe DNA. Fluorimetry was performed using a video-intensified microscope photon-counting system. The DNA content of individual mitochondria was more than 1 Mbp in the shoot apical meristem and the young leaf primordium, and decreased to approximately 170 kbp in the mature foliage leaf. In contrast, the DNA content of individual plastids was low in the shoot apical meristem and increased until day 7 after sowing. Application of 5-bromo-2′-deoxyuridine, an analogue of thymidine, was usesd to investigate DNA synthesis in situ. The activities of DNA synthesis in the mitochondria and plastids changed according to the stage of development. Mitochondrial DNA was actively synthesized in the shoot apical meristem and young leaf primordia. This strongly suggests that the amount of mitochondrial DNA per mitochondrion, which has been synthesized in the shoot apical meristem and young leaf primordium, is gradually reduced due to continual divisions of the mitochondria during low levels of mitochondrial DNA synthesis. Synthesis of DNA in the plastid became active in the leaf primordia following DNA synthesis in the mitochondria, and the small plastids were filled with large plastid nucleotids. This enlargement of the plastid nucleoids occurred before the synthesis of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase and the development of thylakoids.
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Abbreviations
- BrdU:
-
5-bromo-2′-deoxyuridine
- DAPI:
-
4′-6-diamidino-2-phenylindole
- DiOC6a:
-
3,3′-dihexyloxacarbocyanine
- mtDNA:
-
mitochondrial DNA
- mt-nucleoid:
-
mitochondrial nucleoid
- ptDNA:
-
plastid DNA
- pt-nucleoid:
-
plastid nucleoid
- Rubisco:
-
ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase
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This work was supported by grant No. 2553 to M.F. and Nos. 04454019, 03304005 and 06262204 to T.K. from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan, and by a grant for a pioneering research project in biotechnology from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan.
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Fujie, M., Kuroiwa, H., Kawano, S. et al. Behavior of organelles and their nucleoids in the shoot apical meristem during leaf development in Arabidopsis thaliana L.. Planta 194, 395–405 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00197541
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