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Plant Physiology 81:708-710 (1986)
© 1986 American Society of Plant Biologists

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Microspectrofluorometric Measurement of Chloroplast DNA in Dividing and Expanding Leaf Cells of Spinacia oleracea

Margaret E. Lawrence and John V. Possingham

CSIRO Division of Horticultural Research, G.P.O. Box 350, Adelaide, South Australia 5001

Absolute DNA amounts of individual chloroplasts from mesophyll and epidermal cells of developing spinach leaves were measured by microspectrofluorometry using the DNA-specific stain, 4,6-diamidino-2-phenyl indole, and the bacterium, Pediococcus damnosus, as an internal standard. Values obtained by this method showed that DNA amounts of individual chloroplasts from mesophyll cells fell within a normal distribution curve, although mean DNA amounts changed during leaf development and also differed from the levels in epidermal chloroplasts. There was no evidence in the data of plastids containing either the high or low levels of DNA which would be indicative of discontinuous polyploidy of plastids, or of division occurring in only a small subpopulation of chloroplasts. By contrast, the distribution of nuclear DNA amounts in the same leaf tissues in which cell division was known to be occurring showed a clear bimodal distribution. We consider that the distribution of chloroplast DNA in the plastid population shows that there is no S-phase of chloroplast DNA synthesis, all chloroplasts in the population in young leaf cells synthesize DNA, and all chloroplasts divide.




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