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1 Protoplast isolation and fusion Hanstein first introduced the term protoplast in 1880 that refers to the naked plant cell all components of the plant cell excluding the cell wall.

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 Protoplast isolation and fusion

• Hanstein first introduced the term protoplast in 1880 that refers to the naked plant cell

all components of the plant cell excluding the cell wall.

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Protoplast isolation and fusion

Mechanical • Plasmolysis of the plant cells• Dissect tissue • De-plasmolysis expansion &

release the protoplasts from cut ends of cells

• 1960 enzymatic isolation of

protoplasts was demonstrated

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Protoplast isolation • Cocking used a concentrated solution of cellulase to degrade the cell walls of tomato root cells.

• 1968 Takabe Enzymatic isolation of protoplasts from tobacco

• 1971 regenerated plants from the isolated tobacco protoplasts

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Steps in protoplast isolation; enzymatic method:

1. Selection of starting materials (and surface sterilization);

Leaves, petioles, shoot apices, roots, fruits, coleoptiles, hypocotyls, stem, embryos, microspores, & callus, cell suspension cultures

The physiological condition of the source plant is important; since the condition will influence the yield and viability of the isolated protoplasts.

• plants should be grown under controlled conditions• fully expanded leaves of young plants or new shoots is used

(mesophyll cells)• leaves are sterilized, lower epidermis is peeled off and cut into

small pieces • callus and suspension culture cells collect at the early

exponential phase of growth

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Protoplast isolation• 2. Enzyme treatment:

3 enzyme types are required

-Pectinase mainly degrades the middle lamina-Cellulase & hemicellulase degrade the

cellulosic and hemicellulosic components of plant cells

• 30 min- 20 hr treatment• Incubation temperature, 25 to 30oC• pH of the enzyme solution, 4.7 to 6.0• An osmoticum is always included as a

stabilizer since protoplasts released into the standard cell culture medium will burst (mannitol or sorbitol)

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• 3. Filtration: pass the solution through a stainless steel or nylon mesh (50-100 m)

• Centrifugation: mix filtrate with sucrose to a final concentration of 20% and centrifuge

• Washing: remove protoplast band, mix with sucrose & centrifuge, repeat three times Suspend protoplasts in a volume of cell medium to an appropriate cell density

Isolation of protoplasts from Arabidopsis (14-dy-old seedlings yielded 5 106-107 protoplasts

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4. Protoplast viability testing: This involves staining of the purified protoplasts.

Fluorescein diacetate (FDA)

• accumulates in the plasmalemma of viable protoplasts

• can be detected by fluorescence microscopy.

Evans blue• intact protoplasts are capable of excluding the stain

Cells and protoplasts stained with Evans blue.(a) Non-stained cells (viable).(b) Viable protoplast surrounded by blue cellular aggregates(c) Cell with blue cytoplasm. (d) Control of Non-viable dead cells

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5. Culture of protoplasts: • Regeneration of the cell walls in liquid culture• Transfer to agar media (agarose)

– Incubate at 20 to 28oC in low light or darkness

• Within 3 weeks cell colonies are visible

organogenesis or embryogenesis shoots plantlets

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Protoplast isolation and fusionUses?

• Studies on as a single cell system section of mutant cell lines, cloning of cell populations

• Study cell wall biosynthesis

• Somatic hybridization• Genetic engineering

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Protoplast isolation and fusion

• Somatic hybridization the fusion of two protoplasts

• same species• different species• between different genera

– cross between sexually incompatible species transfer of nuclear or cytoplasmic characters

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Fusion products

• HETEROKARYON hybrid or cybrid- a cell with more than one nucleus formed by the fusion of two cells

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Fusion products

heterokaryon

hybrid

cybrid

Hybrid a mononucleate cell that results from the fusion of 2 different cells, leading to the formation of a synkaryon (a hybrid cell that results form the fusion the nuclei

it carries) Cybrid a cytoplasmic hybrid produced by the fusion of a whole cell with a cytoplast. Cytoplasts are enucleated cells.

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Protoplast fusion

• Isolated protoplasts are negatively charged electrostatic repulsion between adjacent protoplast

• Efficient fusion is obtained with PEG, high [Ca2+] and a relatively high pH of 5.5-6.5

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Protoplast fusion: 3 phases

Phase 1: Agglutination or adhesion

• two or more protoplasts are brought together in close proximity

• PEG, high calcium ions, high pH

• 3 scientists were instrumental in the development of the PEG method in 1974 Kao, Michayluk and Wallin

Phase 2: Plasma membrane fusion at localized sites

• Fusion (high Temp)• Formation of cytoplasmic

bridges between the protoplasts

Phase 3: Formation of heterokaryon

• rounding off of the fused protoplasts spherical heterokaryon

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Protoplast fusion

• Phase 1: Agglutination or adhesion• Phase 2: Plasma membrane fusion • Phase 3: Formation of heterokaryon

selection of hybridbetween 1-10% of the protoplasts actually undergo fusion (A + B A, B, AB, AA, BB)Cells of Petunia sp. leaves (with chloroplasts). Left cell was merged with a protoplast from Impatiens neuguinea petals (with coloured vacuole).

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Identification and selection of hybrid cells

1.Observation of visual characteristics• visual identification of the hybrid cells• mechanically isolate the hybrid cells

– based on growth of the hybrid cells– based on morphology of cells

2.Hybrid cell display of genetic complementation for recessive mutations– chlorophyll deficient mutants

3.Physiological complementation for in vitro growth requirements- nitrate reductase mutants

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Verification and characterization of somatic hybrids

1.Morphology; the morphological characteristics are intermediate between both parents

– leaf shape, leaf area, trichomes, petiole size – root morphology – flower shape, color, size & structure– pollen viability

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Verification and characterization of somatic hybrids

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Verification and characterization of somatic hybrids

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Verification and characterization of somatic hybrids

2.Isoenzyme analysis; Electrophoretic variability of isoenzymes

– Isoenzymes = different molecular forms of an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction

– Aminotransferase, amylase, lactate dehydrogenase, super oxide dismutase (SOD)

– Somatic hybrids may display isoenzyme bands of certain enzymes specific to one parent or to both parents simultaneously.

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Isoenzyme analysis

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Verification and characterization of somatic hybrids

3.Chromosomal constitution;

– counting the chromosomes in presumed hybrid cells can be an easy and reliable method to verify hybrid cells.

– Should be the sum of chromosome number of two parent protoplasts used for fusion

• C. sinensis and P. trifoliata 2n=18 chromosome number in one of the hybrid plants was 36, sum of C. sinensis (2n=18) and P. trifoliata

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Verification and characterization of somatic hybrids

4.Molecular techniques;

– specific molecular markers of chloroplast and mitochondrial DNA have been used to characterize the nature of hybrids

– RFLP, AFLP, RADP, microsatellites

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Verification and characterization of somatic hybrids

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Verification and characterization of somatic hybrids

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Genetic traits transferred by somatic hybridization

• Nicotiana tabacum + N. nesophila resistance to Tobacco mosaic virus

• Solanum tuberosum + S. chacoense resistance to Potato virus X

• S. tuberosum + S. commersonii frost tolerance

• Citrus sinensis + Poncirus trifoliate resistance against Phytophthora

• S. tuberosum + S. bulbocastanum resistance against root knot nematode

• Citrullus lanatus + Cucumis melo club rot resistance

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Cybrids

• Or cytoplasmic hybrids• Cells or plants containing the nucleus of one

species but the cytoplasm from both parental species

• Produced in protoplast fusion experiments when:– Enucleate protoplast or inactivated nucleus– Elimination of the nucleus from a heterokaryon– Gradual elimination of the chromosomes of one

species from a hybrid during mitotis

• Male sterility and herbicide resistance

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Limitations • Requirement of an efficient plant regeneration

protocol

• An effective method of selection of the fused product

• The regenerated plants after somatic hybridization are unbalanced & are not viable; genetic stability during protoplast culture is poor