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In standardMurashige-Skoog medium, particularly at pH higher than 5.0 and after heat sterilization, there is a tendency for turbidity or a sediment to appear, and for the acidity to increase by 0.2 to 0.5 degrees pH. The sediment is an amorphous precipitate of ferric phosphate and partly also of ferrous phosphate. In a stock iron solution prepared by chelation of ferrous sulphate with an equimolar quantity of the complexone Na2EDTA. up to 10% free FeII ions could be detected. By titration of a concentrated complexon solution it was found that in the presence of an excess of Na2EDTA (at the approximate molar ratio FeII: Na2EDTA 1: 2) chelation of this free iron takes place to such an extent that its concentration falls to as little as 0.1%. Media with iron stabilized in this way are quite clear and maintain the adjusted pH for up to several weeks. The heat sterilization, too, does not lead to any precipitation or to a shift in pH within the broad range of adjusted values pH 4.8 – 6.0.
We also attempted to increase the relatively low buffering capacity of Murashige-Skoog medium. The addition of sodium citrate (1.25 mmol 1-1) and particularly of citrate-phosphate buffer (at a final concentration of 1.97 mmol citric acid and 6.07 mmol dibasic sodium phosphate per litre of medium) to the Murashige-Skoog medium considerably increased its buffering capacity, so that at the end of the subculture interval of tobacco cell suspensions the adjusted acidity changed only slightly (pH 5.40 ± 0.15). A thorough evaluation of the growth parameters of tobacco batch cultures (cell counts, vital staining, kinetics of DNA and protein synthesis) failed to reveal any negative effect either of additional chelation or of the buffering components.
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Abbreviations
- Na2EDTA. 2 H2O:
-
Na2-ethylenediaminotetraacctate dihydrate
- NAA:
-
α-naphtalene acetic acid
- dThd:
-
thymidine
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Vyskot, B., Bezdek, M. Stabilization of the synthetic media for plant tissue and cell cultures. Biol Plant 26, 132–143 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02902279
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