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Development and Growth Regulation

Effects of the Suicide Inhibitors of Arginine and Ornithine Decarboxylase Activities on Organogenesis, Growth, Free Polyamine and Hydroxycinnamoyl Putrescine Levels in Leaf Explants of Nicotiana Xanthi n.c. Cultivated in Vitro in a Medium Producing Callus Formation

Laboratoire de Physiopathologie végétale, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, BV 1540, 21034 Dijon Cedex, France

We studied the effects of DL--difluoromethylarginine (DFMA) and DL--difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), specific, irreversible inhibitors of arginine decarboxylase (ADC) and ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), respectively, on organogenesis growth and titers of free polyamines and conjugated putrescines (hydroxycinnamoyl putrescines) in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv Xanthi n.c.) calli. These results suggest that ADC and ODC regulate putrescine biosynthesis during early and later stages of tobacco callus development, respectively. ADC appears active in biosynthesis of large levels of free amines (agmatine and putrescine) while ODC appears active only in biosynthesis of large levels of putrescine conjugates (hydroxycinnamoyl putrescines). DFMA inhibits the fresh and dry weight increases of tobacco calli, whereas DFMO even promoted the fresh and dry weight increases, thus supporting the view that ADC is important for cell division and callus induction. Inhibition of ODC activity by DFMO resulting in an amide deficiency after 4 weeks of culture facilates the expression of differentiated cell functions. Formation of buds is associated with a significant decrease of hydroxycinnamoyl putrescines.

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