Involvement of cyclic adenosine-3?, 5?-monophosphate in chloronema differentiation in protonema cultures of Funaria hygrometrica
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Planta
- Vol. 144 (4) , 317-324
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00391574
Abstract
The role of purine and pyrimidine ribosides, nucleotides and substituted xanthines in the differentiation of chloronema filaments in suspension cultures of protonema of the moss Funaria hygrometrica Hedw. has been examined. Cyclic adenosine-3′,5′-monophosphate (cAMP) and mono-and dibutyryl cAMP evoked the maximum response in wild-type protonema. ADP and ATP also enhanced chloronema differentiation but were less active than cAMP; pyrimidine derivatives were completely inactive. Inhibitors of cyclic-nucleotide phosphodiesterase aminophylline, theophylline and ICI 58, 301 (3-acetamido-6-methyl-8-n-propyl-s-triazolo-(4,3a)-pyrazine)-mimicked the effect of cAMP. A leaky, chloronema-repressed mutant was isolated and in this mutant cAMP was much more active than cyclic guanosine monophosphate and ADP in enhancing chloronema differentiation. These results strongly indicate that cAMP is involved in chloronema differentiation in Funaria, and a hypothesis on growth regulation in protonema cell cultures is proposed.Keywords
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