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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY , Vol 104, Issue 1 201-207, Copyright © 1994 by American Society of Plant Biologists
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DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH REGULATION |
A Genetic Analysis of Chloroplast Division and Expansion in Arabidopsis thaliana
K. A. Pyke and R. M. Leech
Department of Biology, University of York, Heslington, York, YO1 5DD, United Kingdom
A nuclear recessive mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana, arc5, has been isolated
in which there is no significant increase in chloroplast number during leaf
mesophyll cell expansion and in which there are only 13 chloroplasts per
mesophyll cell compared with 121 in wild-type cells. Mature arc5
chloroplasts in fully expanded mesophyll cells are 6-fold larger than in
wild-type cells. A large proportion of arc5 chloroplasts also show some
degree of central constriction, suggesting that the mutation has prevented
the completion of the chloroplast division process. To examine the
interaction of arc loci, a double mutant was constructed between arc1, a
mutant possessing many small chloroplasts, and arc5. A second double mutant
was also constructed between arc3, a previously discovered mutant also
possessing few large chloroplasts per cell, and arc1. Analysis of these
double mutants shows that chloroplast number per mesophyll cell is greater
when arc5 and arc3 mutations are expressed in the arc1 background than when
expressed alone. The cell-specific nature of arc mutants was also analyzed.
The phenotypic traits characteristic of arc3 and arc5 are a reduction in
chloroplast number and an increase in chloroplast size in mesophyll cells:
these changes are also observed in reduced form in the epidermal and guard
cell chloroplasts of arc3 and arc5 plants. Analysis of parenchyma sheath
cell chloroplasts suggests that in leaves of arc1 plants the normal
developmental distinction between mesophyll and parenchyma sheath
chloroplasts is perturbed. The relevance of these findings to the analysis
of the control of chloroplast division in mesophyll cells is discussed.
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