Étude ultrastructurale des modifications induites par Exserohilum turcicum chez le limbe de Zea mays – Effet du gène de résistance Ht-1

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (10) ◽  
pp. 2061-2066
Author(s):  
B. Gélie ◽  
M. Petitprez ◽  
A. Souvre ◽  
L. Albertini

Ultrastructural changes induced by Exserohilum turcicum (Pass.) Leonard et Suggs in maize leaf cells are observed 24 to 72 h after inoculation, in a comparative study between two isogenic lines with or without the Ht-1 gene. In the susceptible plants (without Ht-1), the plasmalemma and the tonoplast of the mesophyll cells are the first cellular components altered, followed by disorganisation and alteration of organelles, which become scattered throughout the cell. Chloroplasts in particular seem to be very sensitive to the toxic action of the pathogen, which causes disruption of their envelope and grana. Bundle sheath cells are altered later and to a lesser extent than the mesophyll cells. In Ht-1 monogenic resistant inbred lines, cytoplasmic residues of prematurely dead cells surround healthy mesophyll cells protecting them and stimulating their activity and resulting in stabilization of the pathotoxic process 36 to 48 h after inoculation.

Weed Science ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. C. Ellwanger ◽  
S. W. Bingham ◽  
W. E. Chappell ◽  
S. A. Tolin

Corn (Zea mays L. ‘Funk's G-83’) seedling leaves exposed to flame-generated ultra-high temperatures produced in flame cultivation were fixed in glutaraldehyde, post fixed in osmium tetroxide, and embedded in Araldite. In the light microscope, bundle sheath cells of flamed tissue were more heavily stained with Azure II and less vacuolated than were nonflamed cells. Heated mesophyll cells contained swollen, disrupted, and granular chloroplasts. Examination of flamed tissue by electron microscopy revealed granular, dispersed cytaplasm and altered membrane systems. Chloroplast lamellar systems and envelopes, tonoplasts, and plasmalemmas were disintegrated in both bundle sheath and mesophyll cells.


Plants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Ghulam Mustafa ◽  
Muhammad Sarwar Khan

We report here plastid transformation in sugarcane using biolistic transformation and embryogenesis-based regeneration approaches. Somatic embryos were developed from unfurled leaf sections, containing preprogrammed progenitor cells, to recover transformation events on antibiotic-containing regeneration medium. After developing a proficient regeneration system, the FLARE-S (fluorescent antibiotic resistance enzyme, spectinomycin and streptomycin) expression cassette that carries species-specific homologous sequence tails was used to transform plastids and track gene transmission and expression in sugarcane. Plants regenerated from streptomycin-resistant and genetically confirmed shoots were subjected to visual detection of the fluorescent enzyme using a fluorescent stereomicroscope, after genetic confirmation. The resultant heteroplasmic shoots remained to segregate on streptomycin-containing MS medium, referring to the unique pattern of division and sorting of cells in C4 monocotyledonous compared to C3 monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants since in sugarcane bundle sheath and mesophyll cells are distinct and sort independently after division. Hence, the transformation of either mesophyll or bundle sheath cells will develop heteroplasmic transgenic plants, suggesting the transformation of both types of cells. Whilst developed transgenic sugarcane plants are heteroplasmic, and selection-based regeneration protocol envisaging the role of division and sorting of cells in the purification of transplastomic demands further improvement, the study has established many parameters that may open up exciting possibilities to express genes of agricultural or pharmaceutical importance in sugarcane.


1974 ◽  
Vol 52 (12) ◽  
pp. 2599-2605 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. K. M. Rathnam ◽  
V. S. R. Das

The intercellular and intracellular distributions of nitrate assimilating enzymes were studied. Nitrate reductase was found to be localized on the chloroplast envelope membranes. The chloroplastic NADPH – glutamate dehydrogenase was concentrated in the mesophyll cells. The extrachloroplastic NADH – glutamate dehydrogenase was localized in the bundle sheath cells. Glutamate synthesized in the mesophyll chloroplasts was interpreted to be utilized exclusively in the synthesis of aspartate, while in the bundle sheath cells it was thought to be consumed in other cellular metabolic processes. Based on the results, a scheme is proposed to account for the nitrate metabolism in the leaves of Eleusine coracana Gaertn. in relation to its aspartate-type C-4 pathway of photosynthesis.


Weed Science ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Dennis Elmore ◽  
Rex N. Paul

Spotted spurge (Euphorbia maculataL.) and prostrate spurge (E. supinaRaf.), both in subgenusChamesyce,were examined by light and electron microscopy using a caffeine - fixation technique to sequester the phenolic pools intercellularly. Both species have typical dicotyledon-type Kranz anatomy. Sequestered phenolic pools were located in vacuoles in epidermal and mesophyll cells. Only in spotted spurge, however, were additional phenolic pools formed in bundle - sheath cells. This study was undertaken because allelopathy has been demonstrated in prostrate spurge and because phenolic compounds have been implicated in allelopathy. These results would indicate that spotted spurge should also be allelopathic.


1969 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Bisalputra ◽  
W. J. S. Downton ◽  
E. B. Tregunna

The ultrastructure of the chlorenchymatous tissues around the vascular bundles of three different types of grass leaves is described. In the temperate grass leaf, as exemplified by wheat, the inner mestom sheath contains proplastids. Normal chloroplasts are found only within the mesophyll cells. Smaller chloroplasts occur in cells of the ill-defined parenchymatic bundle sheath. This type of leaf has the photosynthetic pathway described by Calvin and a high carbon dioxide compensation value. In the tropical grasses, Sorghum and Aristida, the new photosynthetic pathway proposed by Hatch et al. and low carbon dioxide compensation are correlated with development of the parenchymatic bundle sheath. Cytological evidence indicates that cells of the bundle sheath are much more active than the surrounding mesophyll tissue. The specialized chloroplasts of the bundle sheath cells may be responsible for the physiological and biochemical differences between leaves of tropical and temperate grasses.


1976 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 863 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Repo ◽  
MD Hatch

Monocotyledonous C4 species classified as NADP-ME-type transfer malate from mesophyll to bundle sheath cells where this acid is decarboxylated via NADP malic enzyme (EC 1.1.1.40) to yield pyruvate and CO2. The dicotyledon G. celosioides is most appropriately classified in thls group on the basis of high leaf activities of NADP malic enzyme and NADP malate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.82). However, this species contains high aspartate aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.1) and alanine aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.2) activities and centripetally located bundle sheath chloroplasts, features more typical of other groups of C4 species that cycle aspartate and alanine between mesophyll and bundle sheath cells. During the present study, we found that these aminotransferases and NADP malate dehydrogenase were predominantly located in mesophyll cells, that malate was the major C4 acid labelled when leaves were exposed to 14CO2, and that label was initially lost most rapidly from the C-4 of malate during a chase in 12CO2. These results are consistent with the major route of photosynthetic metabolism being the same as that operative in other NADP-ME-type species, although this may be supplemented by a minor route utilizing aspartate. In contrast to monocotyledonous NADP-ME-type C4 species, isolated bundle sheath cells from G. celosioides were capable of rapid photoreduction of NADP as judged by products formed during assimilation of 14CO2 and their capacity for light-dependent oxygen evolution. This was related to a relatively high frequency of single unstacked granum in the chloroplasts of these cells.


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