Abstract
Cryopreservation is widely applied to many economically important species excluding chimera plants which are problematic for long-term conservation. Their storage problems can be circumvented only by cryopreserving meristems. This study looked at the morphogenetic response of shoot tips of periclinal chimera chrysanthemum ‘Lady Orange’ and ‘Lady Salmon’, as well as the solid mutant ‘Richmond’, that were cryopreserved by encapsulation-dehydration technique. By applying 10 µM ABA in the preculture medium followed by 4-day-long dehydration treatment, the explant survival reached up to 67%. Besides the stimulation of typical single shoot recovery, cryopreservation led to direct or indirect multiple shoot formation, shoot malformation, as well as inhibited their spontaneous rooting. Microscopic analysis revealed three types of structural damages of shoot tips which can correspond with their morphogenetic response in recovery culture. No influence of cryostorage on the acclimatisation efficiency of the recovered chrysanthemums was observed.
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Introduction
Plants which have one layer of cells that is genetically distinct from another layer are very popular among ornamental plant species such as Pelargonium spp., Chrysanthemum × grandiflorum /Ramat./Kitam., Taxus baccata L., +Laburnocytisus ‘Adamii’, Ficus benjamina L., Scindapsus pictus Hassk., Saintpaulia ionantha H.Wendl. Since the nineteenth century, they are used in horticultural production as a source of new phenotypes (Stewart et al. 1972; Zonneveld 2007). Moreover, chimeras are also useful in evaluating the interactions between cells during plant development (Szymkowiak and Sussex 1996; Yamaguchi et al. 2009). However, these plants are problematic in propagation and storage. Rearrangement of histogen layers by the L1 cell damage or their replacement by the ones from the L2 layer results in the change in colour and/or shape of flowers or more rarely in leaves (Bush et al. 1976; Zonneveld and Van Iren 2000). Therefore, for the purpose of reproduction and conservation only vegetative propagation methods based on exploitation of meristematic tissues can be applied. In order to achieve those goals, in vitro tissue-based cultures (Kereša et al. 2012) and cryopreservation (Fukai et al. 1994) are becoming more and more popular.
The potential of low temperatures in storage of genetic resources is well known (Engelmann 2011). The past few decades have witnessed a tremendous progress in the development and application of cryopreservation techniques to conservation of numerous ornamental plants (Kulus and Zalewska 2014a). Several cryopreservation techniques have also been already established with chrysanthemum, in which cell dehydration is performed by two methods: osmotical (usually by applying media or solutions with increased sucrose content) or physical, i.e., under silica gel or sterile air flow (Teixeira da Silva and Kulus 2013; Kulus 2015). Each cryopreservation step (preculture, pretreatment, freezing/rewarming and recovery) may influence the viability and morphogenetic response of the cells, as observed by Martín et al. (2011) with chrysanthemum ‘Pasodoble’. The influence of preculture and various cryotreatment on the morphogenetic potential of shoot tips cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen (LN) is still not fully understood, in particular, in the field of chimeras.
One of the methods, which can be applied in the screening of cryopreserved explant survival and integrity, is their microscopic observation. Electron microscopy is a very useful tool used in cryobiology, which enables tracking how soon after rewarming do the thawed tissue regain its original state of vacuolisation, or the explant regeneration path. Histological and ultrastructural (transmission electron microscopy, TEM) analyses of Dianthus shoot tips (Kartha 1985), Hypericum perforatum L. tissues (Skyba et al. 2012), as well as Dendrobium sonia-28 (Poobathy et al. 2013) and Oncidium hamana ‘Elfin’ (Miao et al. 2005) protocorm-like bodies (PLBs) were used in order to indicate to which explant regions do the freezing and thawing cycles inflict most damages. Cellular and subcellular changes after various cryopreservation regimes were examined to explain the mechanism of the beneficial effect of different pretreatment conditions (Miao et al. 2005; Mikuła et al. 2005; Kushnarenko et al. 2010). Structural modifications in the mesophyll and chloroplasts associated with cryopreservation of seven Hypericum species were performed by Stoyanova-Koleva et al. (2013, 2015). Ultrastructural observations were carried out on radicles and shoot tips of embryonic axes of Acer saccharinum L. to assess immediate (i.e., pre-thaw) responses to cooling treatments (Wesley-Smith et al. 2014). Only few works have focussed on the effect of cryopreservation on the structure of shoot apex area (Fukai and Oe 1990; Helliot et al. 2003; Wilkinson et al. 2003). Using light and electron microscopy, the tunica and corpus cell tolerance to ultra-low temperatures in tomato was recently shown (Halmagyi et al. 2017). It is worth emphasising that no attention has been paid to the ultrastructural changes associated with various morphogenetic responses of cryopreserved explants. This aspect is especially important with periclinal chimeras, which require full survival of the tunica layers in order to maintain their stability.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of cryopreservation on the morphogenetic response of shoot tip explants in chrysanthemum chimeras.
Materials and methods
Plant material
Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum × grandiflorum /Ramat./Kitam.) ‘Richmond’, ‘Lady Orange’ and ‘Lady Salmon’ obtained via radiomutation (Zalewska et al. 2007) were the source of plant material. Purple-flowering ‘Richmond’ is a stable cultivar in terms of flower colour while ‘Lady Orange’ and ‘Lady Salmon’ are periclinal chimeras (Zalewska et al. 2007).
Plantlets were maintained on the modified MS medium (Murashige and Skoog 1962) with an increased by half concentration of calcium chloride and iron sulphate. The medium was supplemented with 0.09 M sucrose and solidified with 0.8% agar; pH 5.8 was determined before autoclaving. Shoot cultures were kept in glass jars of 350 ml volume (six shoots per jar), in the growth room under 16/8 h photoperiod conditions and photosynthetic photon flux density of 27.4 µmol m−2 s−1, at 24 ± 2 °C.
Cryopreservation procedure
Preculture
The single-node explants of chrysanthemum, without leaves, were precultured for 7 days on the MS medium (as already described) in the presence of 0.09 M sucrose. Then, the explants were subcultured to the same medium, but additionally supplemented with 10 µM of abscisic acid (ABA) for the next week. Ten explants were inoculated in a single jar. The shoot tips isolated from axillary shoots were used for the further experiments.
Encapsulation/dehydration procedure
The shoot tips (approximately 2.0 mm in length) with two leaf primordia and very young leaf were incubated in 3% sodium alginate (10 min) based on the modified MS medium salts, without CaCl2, supplemented with 0.09 M sucrose and then dipped into 0.1 M CaCl2 for 30 min, forming calibrated beads (3–4 mm in diameter). The beads were washed with bidistilled sterile water and osmotically dehydrated in liquid MS medium, with gradually raised level of sucrose concentrations, as follows: 0.30 M (24 h) then in 0.50 M (24 h) then in 0.75 (24 h) and, finally, in 1.0 M (24 h). The beads were maintained in agitation in the liquid medium using “Infors” shaker with 130 rpm (4.5 amplitude), in darkness. Then, the beads were air-desiccated for 3 h (40% of the initial fresh weight), loaded into 2.0 ml cryovials (20 beads per tube) and immersed directly into LN (− 196 °C) for at least 1 h.
The plant material was rewarmed in a water bath at 38 ± 1 °C for 3 min, and the encapsulated shoot tips were transferred on the modified MS recovery medium supplemented with 0.09 M sucrose and 1.16 μM kinetin (KIN) (10 beads per 90 mm Petri dish). The explants were cultured in darkness for 2 days. Next, the beads were transferred to a 16/8 day/night photoperiod and kept at a light intensity of 12.2 µmol m−2 s−1 for a further 5 days. Afterwards, the cultures were transferred to initial lighting conditions. After 1 month of culture, the beads were subcultured to a MS medium without plant growth regulators (MS0) for plantlet elongation.
Viability assessment
The cryopreservation effectiveness was evaluated by the explant survival, 7 days after rewarming. The total number of cryopreserved shoot tips was considered 100%. Furthermore, the percentage of the explants forming single and multiple shoots (i.e., which formed in the number of at least two from a single shoot tip directly or indirectly) was evaluated after 60 days. Spontaneously, adventitious root formation was determined 60 days after rewarming. The results were referred to control explants and shoots (i.e., recovered from non-precultured and non-cryotreated shoot tips).
Microscopic analysis
Plant material samples consisted of ‘Lady Orange’ and ‘Lady Salmon’ shoot tips (containing two leaf primordia and one young leaf) were harvested 2 and 5 days after rewarming. Untreated explants were used as a control. A number of 20 shoot tips from each of the six combinations were prepared for light and transmission electron microscopy studies. The extent and severity of injuries after rewarming were assessed in all layers of meristem and leaf-primordium cells.
The biological material was fixed in 2.5% glutaraldehyde in 0.1 M cacodylate buffer with 1% caffeine (pH 7.2) for 2 h. Next, the shoot tips were rinsed three times with cacodylate buffer with caffeine for a total 30 min, followed by post-fixation with 2% osmium tetroxide (OsO4) overnight at 4 °C. Then samples were dehydrated in a graded series of ethanol and propylene oxide, and gradually embedded in a mixture of Epon and Spurr resins (Hunter 1993). The samples were polymerised at 58 °C for 72 h. Semi-thin (2 μm) and ultra-thin (80 nm) sections were cut with an TESLA BS 490A and Diatome PowerTome XL RMC ultramicrotomes on glass knife and diamond knife (Drukker), respectively. Semi-thin sections were stained with 0.5% toluidine blue (TB) in 1% borax (10 s) and analysed with a Vanox-Olympus light microscope. Ultrathin sections were contrasted with uranyl acetate for 30 min. After washing the samples were transferred to a Reynold solution (lead citrate) (Reynolds 1963) for 30 min, and then observed in a transmission electron microscope ZEISS Libra 120 (acceleration 120 kV). Photographic documentation was performed with the use of Olympus iTEM 5.1 software.
Rooting and acclimatisation
Six months after thawing of shoot tips, plantlets were rooted and acclimatised, i.e., 32—‘Richmond’, 36—‘Lady Orange’, 22—‘Lady Salmon’ and additional 10–15 controls from each cultivar.
For rooting, the 3-cm-long distal shoot fragments were dissected and transferred on the rooting MS medium containing half-strength macronutrients (½ MS) and supplemented with 11.42 µM of 3-indoleacetic acid (IAA) for 10 days.
Acclimatisation was conducted for 21 days in January in natural light conditions in a glasshouse at the temperature 18– 21 °C. Chrysanthemums were grown in plastic trays (36 plants per tray) filled with a mixture of peat and perlite (2:1; disinfected with 0.2% v/w Dithane), sprayed for 1 week, and covered with perforated foil and geo-cover. The effectiveness of rooting and acclimatisation was assessed.
Statistical analysis
The experiment was conducted in three replications with 40 shoot tips in every replication. For each cultivar, cryopreserved and non-treated groups were analysed. A total of 720 explants were used.
For the data expressed as percentage, the Freeman–Tukey transformation was used. After the transformation, the results (completely randomised design) were statistically analysed with the analysis of variance (ANOVA), and the Newman–Keuls Multiple Comparison Test (P ≤ 0.05) using Statistica 10.0 and ANALWAR-5.2-FR tools. Tables with results refer to real numerical data, while alphabet letters point to homogenous groups based on transformed data.
Results
Effect of cryopreservation on the shoot tip survival and their morphogenetic reactions
After 7 days of post-thaw culture, surviving cryopreserved shoot tips showed green colour (Fig. 1a), while dead ones became dark brown. The post-rewarming shoot tip survival ranged from 42.5 to 66.7% (Tab. 1). Seven days after rewarming, the growth of cryopreserved shoot tips began from the development of the leaf covering the meristem. The alginate bead did not stop the development of shoots (Fig. 1b). Even several leaves could develop inside it (Fig. 1c). The first (Fig. 1b) or successive (Fig. 1d) leaves easily broke the bead. The further growth of the shoot took place on the surface of the capsule (Fig. 1b, d).
Plant regrowth from non-treated control shoot tips was 100%, and no shoot deformation, callus formation or a multiple-shoot recovery was noticed (Tab. 1; Fig. 2a). In a screen of three Chrysanthemum × grandiflorum cultivars 48– 81% of rewarmed viable shoot tips developed typical single shoots (Fig. 2b). The remaining explants produced the multiple shoots (Fig. 2c, d). Two paths in multiple structure recovery were distinguished. In the first group were those, which grew in a number of two or three from a single explant and showed no malformation (Fig. 2c). Others (3.7–10.3%) regenerated through a brown, glossy callus, and they were usually deformed (Fig. 2d). Those structures had short internodes, fasciated leaves and were unable to further development.
All cryopreservation-derived shoots grew slower than the control plantlets (especially ‘Lady Orange’ chrysanthemums). The development of multiple shoots was the slowest. About 42–75% of recovered shoots were able to spontaneous root formation (Fig. 2c; Table 1). The control shoots regenerated roots during the first month of culture, while the shoots recovered after cryopreservation were not able to do it until the second month of post-thaw culture. None of the malformed shoots were capable of rooting.
Histological and ultrastructural characterisation of shoot tips recovered after cryopreservation
‘Lady Orange’ and ‘Lady Salmon’ explants were subjected to microscopic analysis; however, due to a similar trend of structural changes observed in both cultivars, only photographical documentation of ‘Lady Orange’ is presented in the paper.
In the control shoot tips, dense cytoplasm was observed in the cells of leaf primordia and the apical dome (Fig. 3a). The cells of the L1 layer were cylindrical and tightly arranged (Fig. 3b). Their outer cell wall was covered with cuticle. The nuclei, unlike smaller numerous vacuoles, were centrally located and abundant in condensed heterochromatin. The L2 layer cells were more vacuolated, although still they had prominent nuclei with even two nucleoli (Fig. 3c). As for the corpus and leaf primordia, the cells were more elongated (Fig. 3d). They had large nuclei and cytoplasm rich with plastids and mitochondria.
The microscopic analysis revealed three types of structural damages in shoot tips after their cryopreservation. In the first of them, the shoot tips had fully viable meristem (both tunica layers and the corpus), as well as one or two primordia and entirely or partially viable leaf with dividing cells (Fig. 4a). All of those organs had a typical cell organisation. Similar to the control, the cells of the L1 tunica layer were cylindrical, small and closely arranged (Fig. 4b). Their nuclei were prominent, well shaped and centrally located having one or two nucleoli. The vacuoles were smaller, numerous and peripherally located. Numerous mitochondria were also present in those cells. The L2 layer cells were more vacuolated, although still they had pronounced nuclei (Fig. 4b). As for the corpus cells, the vacuoles occupied the greatest space, while the nuclei were smaller (Fig. 4c). Some of the meristematic cells were already dividing at day 2 of post-thaw culture. Extensive necrosis or cell abnormalities, e.g., shrunk protoplasts, disintegrated plasmalemma, were visible only in the deeper parenchymatic parts of the explants (Fig. 4d–f).
In the second type of structural damages, the meristem did not survive LN storage (partially or entirely); however, one or two leaf primordia were fully viable (Fig. 5a). The meristematic cells had shrunk protoplasts and damaged organelles (Fig. 5b). Cell disturbances were present in both the tunica and corpus parts. In those explants, the cells localised in the leaf axil were highly metabolically active with even two nucleoli present in a single nucleus (Fig. 5c). The ultrastructure of the viable explant parts was not altered in comparison with the control. Leaf cells were elongated, more vacuolated and their cytoplasm was rich in mitochondria and chloroplasts (Fig. 5d). Their cell walls were intact. As for those explants already 5 days after rewarming, a development of axillary shoots in the leaf axil was observed (Fig. 5e, f).
The third type of structural damages showed that there are shoot tips in which only the part of a young leaf survived LN storage (Fig. 6a). Viable cells were metabolically active and structurally similar to the control cells. They were able to undergo proliferation already after 2 days of recovery culture (Figs. 6b, c). Those cells were divided many times within the next 3 days of culture (Fig. 6d). This was not observed among the leaves of control explants.
Effect of cryopreservation on plantlet acclimatisation
Both, the rooting (on the IAA-supplemented medium) and acclimatisation efficiency were 100% for the control and cryopreserved-derived plants of all studied cultivars (Table 2). In the end, 32 ‘Richmond’, 36 ‘Lady Orange’ and 22 ‘Lady Salmon’ plants were recovered. No differences in the morphology or deformations within the cryopreservation-derived and control plants were visually observed.
Discussion
Cryopreservation efficiency
One of the main problems associated with developing effective cryopreservation protocols is the necessity of their optimisation for different cultivars (Kulus and Zalewska 2014a). Moreover, the plant tolerance to exogenous factors can be even genotype-dependent. The differences in shoot tip survival between Chrysanthemum × grandiflorum cultivars studied here reached even 35%. The influence of cultivar on the cryopreservation efficiency was also observed with pelargonium, gladiolus and chrysanthemum, in which the survival levels ranged between 9.1–70.6, 4.9–28.0 and 46.0–91.0%, respectively (Gallard et al. 2008; Joung et al. 2007; Halmagyi et al. 2004). In contrast, with rose and carnation, the genetic factor remained insignificant (survival rates: 65 and 95%, respectively) (Halmagyi and Pinker 2006; Sekizawa et al. 2011). Moreover, our studies clearly show that cryopreservation influences the morphogenetic response of shoot tips, and that their reaction in post-thaw culture is also dependent on genotype. In the present research the formation of single and multiple shoots was observed. The share of multiple shoots reached from 19.4% (‘Richmond’) to 51.8% (‘Lady Salmon’). By comparison, Karimi et al. (2002) obtained a multiple-shoots regeneration in 91% of non-cryopreserved chrysanthemum shoot tips on the MS medium with 0.09 M sucrose and 4.44 µM BA (probably due to the presence of cytokinin), while Wang et al. (2014) obtained 48% of multiple shoots regenerated via callus after cryopreservation of ‘Japanese Red’ chrysanthemum via the droplet-vitrification method. As for Gladiolus, shoots from two in vitro-grown cultivars were sensitive to KIN resulting in a high rate (20–80%) of abnormal-looking regenerants (Joung et al. 2007). According to Agbidinoukoun et al. (2013), the callus induction mechanism is still poorly understood and depends mostly on genotype, which could explain the differences between cultivars observed in this study.
Morphogenetic response of the explant after cryopreservation
It was shown previously that cryopreservation treatments cause cell damage (Wesley-Smith et al. 2014). For example, with Dioscorea rotundata Poir typical plantlet development was obtained for − 70 °C-cooled shoot tips, whereas only callus development occurred from tissues exposed to LN (Quain et al. 2009). Early scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis showed that only a small part of the chrysanthemum shoot tip survived classical cryopreservation, especially after applying dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) (Fukai and Oe 1990). Xu et al. (2006) observed that cryopreservation using vitrification technique often lead to numerous cell abnormalities in kiwi shoot tips, such as: smaller and more numerous vacuoles, denser cytoplasm, starch accumulation and larger cell lumen. Our research, however, confirmed the possibility of securing not only the entire meristem (both tunica and the deeper parts of the corpus) but also leaf primordia and even large parts of young leaf with no change in their structure. Similar to our results, Kartha (1985) reported that in Dianthus most of subapical tissue was damaged, while the meristem and leaf primordia remained viable. As a consequence, a fully protected shoot tip was capable of forming a single shoot in post-rewarming culture.
In the past it was very rarely observed that the cells which are larger and more differentiated than the meristematic ones can survive storage in LN. Histological observations performed by Wang et al. (2014) showed that only the three outer layers of chrysanthemum meristem cells remained viable after cryopreservation. However, in Cosmos atrosanguineus (Hook.) Voss and Lilium sp. it was shown that beside the meristem also the young parts of the primordium can survive freezing (Wilkinson et al. 2003; Yin et al. 2014). Our study revealed that even if the meristem of chrysanthemum ‘Lady Orange’ and ‘Lady Salmon’ did not survive storage in LN, other parts of the shoot tip, such as primordia and/or young leaf, were able to further development. As a result of meristem damage, recovery of multiple shoots from the viable part of apical meristem, leaf primordia, leaf axil or indirect regeneration through callus may occur. Similarly, histological studies revealed that shoots could be recovered from not-fully viable apple shoot-tips, if groups of cells in the leaf primordia and most of the cells in the apical dome survived storage in LN (Feng et al. 2013).
Our results suggest that due to apical dominance elimination, viable cells of the axillary meristem form directly typical axillary shoots (in a number of two or three from a single explant). Those shoots present no signs of malformation. However, if the entire meristem and leaf axil cells are dead, the proliferation of viable leaf cells may lead to the formation of callus tissue, and then regeneration of adventitious shoots. Similar results were observed with chrysanthemum ‘Jinba’, ‘Lishui Yeju’ (Liu et al. 2009), ‘Japanese Red’ and ‘Xizi Qiuzhuang’ (Wang et al. 2014). This phenomenon is undesired since it may lead to chimera component separation, as observed with chrysanthemum ‘Apricot Marble’ (Fukai et al., 1994). Furthermore, such plantlets have no commercial value due to excessive malformation. Fortunately, in the studied cultivars, those shoots were incapable of plantlet formation. One of the possible reasons of such malformation is mutation within the so-called house-keeping genes. The share of the malformed shoots can be minimised by the addition of gibberellic acid (GA3; 0.05 mg dm−3) into the recovery medium (Wang et al. 2014).
The observed ranges of cryoinjury (i.e., 1. survival of the entire meristem dome; 2. injury of the apical meristem followed by formation of axillary buds from a viable primordium/leaf axil, and 3. survival and division of only young leaf cells), correspond with the three types of morphogenetic response in recovery culture: the formation of single, direct and indirect multiple shoots (Table 1).
Influence of cryopreservation on rooting and acclimatisation efficiency
In the past little attention was paid to rooting and acclimatisation of the plantlets after cryopreservation. Ai et al. (2012) reported that the Rabdosia rubescens shoots produced after encapsulation-dehydration cryopreservation showed an increased rooting efficiency in comparison to the untreated control. Hao et al. (2002) on the other hand, did not observe any influence of storage in LN on citrus rhizogenesis efficiency. As it was reported by Kulus and Zalewska (2014b) encapsulation in Na-alginate inhibits the formation of both spontaneous and IAA-induced chrysanthemum roots. The negative influence of cryopreservation was observed in the present study; the control plants regenerated spontaneously roots within 30 days of culture, while those recovered from the cryopreserved shoot tips started to form roots 2 months after thawing. On the other hand, after dissecting the non-malformed shoots from the capsules and placing them on the IAA-supplemented medium, a 100% rooting efficiency was obtained. Therefore, it can be assumed that the alginate bead represents the main limiting factor of spontaneous rooting.
In the present research no influence of cryopreservation on the plant acclimatisation efficiency was recorded. Similar results were observed in shoot tips-derived plantlets of Solanum lycopersicum L. (Coste et al. 2014). On the other hand, cryopreservation lead to a more than twofold lower acclimatisation efficiency of plantlets in Bactris gasipaes L. (Steinmacher et al. 2007).
Conclusions
Cryopreservation by encapsulation-dehydration affects the morphogenetic response of chrysanthemum shoot tips. It leads to malformation of some shoots and spontaneous rooting inhibition. In fully secured shoot tips, not only the meristem but also leaf primordia can survive storage in LN. The elimination of apical dominance by cryoinjuries favours the formation of multiple shoots, including indirect organogenesis. For plants that are periclinal chimeras, such as chrysanthemum ‘Lady Orange’ and ‘Lady Salmon’, this regeneration path can lead to the loss of ornamental properties. Therefore, the further research will be conducted to explain whether the described cryopreservation procedure affects the stability of the tested cultivars. An efficient chrysanthemum cryopreservation protocol will grant an easy and cost-efficient access of future generations of breeders and producers to genetic resources of high quality and diversity range, which are essential in the creation of new cultivars of this economically important genus.
Author contributions statement
DK—designed and performed the experiments; DK, AA, AM—performed TEM analysis; DK and AM—wrote the manuscript.
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Kulus, D., Abratowska, A. & Mikuła, A. Morphogenetic response of shoot tips to cryopreservation by encapsulation-dehydration in a solid mutant and periclinal chimeras of Chrysanthemum × grandiflorum /Ramat./Kitam.. Acta Physiol Plant 40, 18 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11738-017-2593-4
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