Protocol for Increasing Carotenoid Levels in the Roots of Citrus Plants
提高柑橘植物根中类胡萝卜素含量的实验方案
发布: 2016年12月20日第6卷第24期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2077 浏览次数: 8059
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Abstract
Carotenoids in plants play several key functions such as acting as light-harvesters, antioxidants (Lado et al., 2016) or being precursors of strigolactones, abscisic acid, volatiles and other signaling compounds (Arbona et al., 2013). Although those functions are well-known in light-exposed tissues, information in belowground organs is limited because of reduced abundance of these pigments. In order to better understand the role of carotenoids in roots, we developed a methodology to increase the abundance of these pigments in underground tissues. We took advantage of the fact that citrus roots exposed to light develop pigmentation in order to increase the carotenoid content. Therefore, here we describe a simple method to increase carotenoids in citrus roots.
Keywords: Abscisic acid (脱落酸)
Phytohormones (植物激素)
Growth chamber (生长室)
in vitro culture (体外培养)
Root detachment (根脱离)
Seed germination (种子萌发)
Background
Carotenoid abundance in roots is quite limited and, therefore, understanding the role of these compounds becomes difficult. Exposure of roots to light is a simple, fast and useful tool to increase carotenoid levels in these tissues, especially when compared to other genomic approaches such as overexpressing some key genes of the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway (Cao et al., 2015).
Materials and Reagents
- Pirex® culture tubes 25 x 150 mm
- Disposable syringes (25 ml)
- 1.5 ml Eppendorf tubes
- Citrus seeds (e.g., from a commercial rootstock)
- Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium (4,302.09 mg L−1) (Duchefa Biochemie, catalog number: M0221 )
- Sucrose (30 g L−1) (any supplier)
- Sterile MiliQ-water
- Agar (European Bacteriological Agar) (Conda, Pronadisa, catalog number: 1800 )
- Tween® 20 (0.1% v/v) (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: P2287 )
- Myo-inositol (100 mg L−1) (Duchefa Biochemie, catalog number: I0609 )
- Pyridoxine-HCl (1.0 mg L−1) (Duchefa Biochemie, catalog number: P0612 )
- Thiamine-HCl (0.2 mg L−1) (Duchefa Biochemie, catalog number: T0614 )
- Nicotinic acid (0.5 mg L−1) (PANREAC QUÍMICA, catalog number: A0963 )
- Glycine (0.2 mg L−1) (PANREAC QUÍMICA, catalog number: 141340 )
- Mix A (see Recipes)
- Sodium hypochlorite solution (50.0%, v/v) (see Recipes)
- NaOH (0.1 N) (any supplier) (see Recipes)
Equipment
- Pirex® media solution bottles
- Autoclave (Raypa, model: Steam Sterilizer AES-75 )
- Laminar flow hood (Bioquell, ASTEC MICROFLOW, model: Microflow Laminar Flow Workstation M50546 )
- Hooked tweezers
- Growth chamber (Snijders Scientific, model: Economic Lux Climate Chamber )
- Long-handled scissors with curved tip
- pH meter (HACH LANGE SPAIN, model: pH meter Basic 20 )
Procedure
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Manzi, M., Pitarch-Bielsa, M., Arbona, V. and Gómez-Cadenas, A. (2016). Protocol for Increasing Carotenoid Levels in the Roots of Citrus Plants. Bio-protocol 6(24): e2077. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2077.
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植物科学 > 植物生理学 > 植物生长
生物化学 > 其它化合物 > 类胡萝卜素
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