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THE PLANT CELL, Vol 1, Issue 8 747-755, Copyright © 1989 by American Society of Plant Biologists

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Pectic Cell Wall Fragments Regulate Tobacco Thin-Cell-Layer Explant Morphogenesis

S. Eberhard, N. Doubrava, V. Marfa, D. Mohnen, A. Southwick, A. Darvill and P. Albersheim
Complex Carbohydrate Research Center and Departments of Biochemistry and Botany, University of Georgia, 220 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602

Pectic fragments of cell wall polysaccharides, released from the walls of suspension-cultured sycamore cells by treatment with endopolygalacturonase, were tested for morphogenesis-regulating activity in a modified tobacco thin-cell-layer explant (TCL) bioassay (D. Mohnen, S. Eberhard, V. Marfa, N. Doubrava, P. Toubart, D. J. Gollin, T.A. Gruber, W. Nuri, P. Albersheim, and A. Darvill, manuscript submitted). The pectic fragments inhibited the formation of roots on TCLs grown on a root-inducing medium containing 15 micromolar indole-3-butyric acid and 0.5 micromolar kinetin. Addition of the pectic fragments to a root-inducing medium containing 7 micromolar indole-3-butyric acid and 0.15 micromolar kinetin caused roots to form on the basal end of TCLs. TCLs cultured on this medium in the absence of added pectic fragments formed roots along their entire length. The pectic fragments induced polar tissue enlargement and the formation of flowers on TCLs cultured on transition medium. The flower-inducing activity was stable to heat treatment and proteolytic digestion. Pectic fragments isolated from the walls of suspension-cultured tobacco cells were as effective as those from the walls of sycamore cells in inducing de novo flower formation in the TCLs. These results support the hypothesis that oligosaccharins from plant cell walls regulate morphogenesis.


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