碘化丙啶
福尔根染色
生物
核DNA
流式细胞术
DNA
分子生物学
植物
生物化学
线粒体DNA
细胞凋亡
程序性细胞死亡
基因
作者
Martin J. Michaelson,H. James Price,John R. Ellison,J. Spencer Johnston
摘要
An improved procedure is reported for determining DNA amounts of plant nuclei. Nuclei stained with propidium iodide, isolated from chopped plant leaves, were passed through an Ortho Cytofluorograph with a Lexel model 95 argon laser (514 nm) and the fluorescence measured, integrated, and recorded using an Ortho 2140 Data Acquisition computer. All nuclear samples were mixed with nuclei of Sultan barley (2C DNA content = 11.12 pg [picogram]) as an internal standard. DNA contents of ten plant species, ranging from 2C = 1.7 pg to 36.1 pg measured by flow cytometry, correlated strongly (r = 0.99, slope = + 1.00) with DNA contents determined from Feulgen-stained nuclei of the same species using microspectrophotometry. The flow cytometric procedures were sufficiently sensitive to detect differences in DNA content between inbred lines of corn and their F1 hybrids. Our results obtained with improved procedures, specifically using propidium iodide as a fluorochrome and plant nuclei instead of chicken erythrocytes as an internal standard, demonstrate that laser flow cytometry can be a precise, rapid, and reliable method for determining nuclear DNA content of plants.
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