Abstract
Breeding of banana is hampered by its genetic complexity, structural chromosome rearrangements and different ploidy levels. Various scientific disciplines, including cytogenetics, linkage mapping, and bioinformatics, are helpful tools in characterising cultivars and wild relatives used in crossing programs. Chromosome analysis still plays a pivotal role in studying hybrid sterility and structural and numerical variants. In this study, we describe the optimisation of the chromosome spreading protocol of pollen mother cells focusing on the effects of standard fixation methods, duration of the pectolytic enzyme treatment and advantages of fluorescence microscopy of DAPI stained cell spreads. We demonstrate the benefits of this protocol on meiotic features of five wild diploid Musa acuminata bananas and a diploid (AA) cultivar banana “Rejang”, with particular attention on pairing configurations and chromosome transmission that may be indicative for translocations and inversions. Pollen slides demonstrate regular-shaped spores except “Rejang”, which shows fertile pollen grains of different size and sterile pollen grains, suggesting partial sterility and unreduced gamete formation that likely resulted from restitutional meiotic divisions.
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Introduction
The genus Musa L. consists of about 70 species [17], of which Musa acuminata Colla (A genome) and M. balbisiana Colla (B genome) are the leading representatives of cultivated bananas [42]. Most of the banana's wild relatives are diploid with 2n = 2x = 22 chromosomes [42], whereas cultivated forms can also be triploid or tetraploid as resulted from intra- or interspecific hybrids. Wild bananas are seeded with little pulp and so not appropriate for consumption, whereas most cultivated forms are seedless, parthenocarpic or sterile [18].
Banana is one of the essential fruits globally and is cultivated in tropical and subtropical countries. It is an important staple food with an annual production above 100 million tons and plays a vital role in its growers' social and cultural aspects [15]. However, banana is vulnerable to bacterial, viral and fungal pathogens, urging geneticists and breeders to search for disease-resistant varieties [6, 35]. Despite various breeding initiatives [4, 22] and genetic modification [9], introgression of desired traits into cultivated forms is still very demanding, if not impossible [31].
Factors that hamper practical banana breeding include genetic complexity, structural chromosome rearrangements and unequal ploidy levels of appropriate crossing parents [41, 42], often leading to hybrid sterility, partial pollen fertility, linkage drag and crossing incompatibility [16, 29, 39]. Various studies revealed the relevance between fertility with abnormal chromosome morphology and balanced meiotic segregation in wild M. acuminata, M. balbisiana and their hybrids [14, 41, 44]. Most cultivated triploid bananas exhibit abnormal gamete production due to unbalanced chromosome segregation at meiosis, which contrasts to most wild bananas, which are in general fertile [14, 41]. To this end, cytogenetic analyses of chromosome pairing and transmission at male meiosis of the parental and hybrid genotypes are required to establish the course of chromosome behaviour during microsporogenesis [14, 41].
Despite several long-standing cytogenetics studies of banana [14, 41, 44,45,46], the skill of producing high-quality microscopic preparations is still troublesome and time-consuming. Although various authors [1, 10, 20] claim significant improvements in making high-quality chromosome preparation, the presence of dense cytoplasm in pollen mother cells at meiotic stages is still a major challenge in getting high-quality chromosome spreads.
In this study, we aim to further optimise chromosome preparation techniques of pollen mother cells at different meiotic stages to analyse selected Indonesian bananas. We focus on the wild M. acuminata ssp. malaccensis, a wild banana that confers resistance to one of the most devastating banana diseases, Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB). The disease is caused by a plethora of different Fusarium species [27], of which F. odoratissimum, comprising the so-called Tropical Race 4 (TR4), is currently threatening “Cavendish” bananas as well as many other varieties destined for domestic markets [27, 30]. Hence, this species is considered a favourite for FWB resistance studies or for obtaining genetic improvement [8, 9, 21, 34]. Beside this accession, we also included some wild M. acuminata and cultivated bananas for comparison. We considered common fixations as part of slide optimisation to reduce cytoplasmic background and improved incubation time with pectolytic enzyme solution for better cell spreading. We analysed chromosome pairing abnormality, chromosome segregation, unreduced gamete and pollen viability. Eventually, we discussed the potential usage of this method for more intensive banana cytogenetics and insight into how cytogenetics can drive banana breeding programs in the future.
Materials and methods
The plant samples were obtained from the Research Center for Biology's living collection, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), including M. acuminata ssp. malaccensis (LIPI-010), var. breviformis (LIPI-218), var. sumatrana (LIPI-457), var. tomentosa (LIPI-172), and var. zebrina (LIPI-043). Besides, we used the Musa AA “Rejang” (LIPI-048, (Sucrier subgroup) and Musa ABB “Pisang Kepok” (LIPI-125, Saba subgroup) cultivated bananas, and one M. balbisiana (BB) accession “Pisang Klutuk” (LIPI-054). Detailed information on the material is given in Table 1.
Chromosome preparations.
We collected the male buds during September 2014, and March and December 2015, and always between 10 am and 3 pm. We used anthers of 20 mm or less in the younger parts of the male bud with pollen mother cells and microsporocytes at different meiotic stages. The material was directly fixed in one of the following solutions: a) freshly prepared ethanol (96%): glacial acetic acid (3:1), b) methanol (100%): acetic acid (3:1) and c) Carnoy’s solution (9 ethanol: 3 chloroform: 1 acetic acid). The volume of each fixative was about 20 × the volume of the materials. Fixation time was approximately one hour at room temperature. We replaced the fixative 1–2 times until the inflorescences and solution remain clear. Finally, we transferred the material to 70% ethanol for more extended storage at 4 ºC. On the day of slide preparation, we selected the anthers and washed them three times in Milli-Q water (MQ-water) for one minute. Five to ten anthers were put in a 1.5 mL plastic tube, filled with 200 µL pectolytic enzyme solution (0.2% pectolyase Y23 (Sigma P-3026), 0.2% cellulase RS (Yakult 203,033, Yakult Pharmaceutical, Tokyo, Japan) and 0.2% cytohelicase (Bio Sepra 24,970–014)), in 10 mM sodium citrate buffer (pH 4.5), and kept for 1–5 h at 37 °C, depending on the condition of the material and the enzymatic activity. Subsequently, we washed the anthers three times with MQ-water and kept them on ice until use. For the chromosome spreading step, we transferred a 1–2 mm part of an anther onto a clean glass slide along with a tiny amount (c. 5 µL) of water. The anther was then tapped with a glass rod or needle, after which the pollen mother cells (PMCs) were squeezed out and the larger clumps of supporting tissues removed. We then added 2–3 drops of 50% acetic acid, covered with a coverslip and incubated the cells for 5–10 min at 45 °C, while adding small amounts of acetic acid to avoid drying out of the preparation. We then squashed the material with a needle and thumb. We removed the coverslip after freezing the slide in liquid nitrogen and let it air-dry. Alternatively, we squeezed the PMCs in acetic acid 50%, then added 2–3 drops of freshly prepared ethanol—acetic acid (3:1) and flame dried the slide. Slides were stained with 100 µg/mL DAPI (4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole) in Vectashield® (Vector Laboratories) mounting solution (1:20) for analysis under a Zeiss fluorescence microscope equipped with appropriate filters and epifluorescence illumination. During the slide screening, we found that pollen mother cells at pachytene were most common.
In contrast, we counted 142 cells at the diakinesis/metaphase I stage, 29 cells at anaphase I and five cells at anaphase II. Digital images were eventually optimised for contrast, brightness and sharpness in Adobe Photoshop [20]. Pollen morphology and viability were established in pollen slides stained in a drop of Lactophenol acid fuchsin [40]. Images were captured of 100–150 pollen grains using a bright-field microscope. Pollen grains were measured with Fiji/ImageJ (https://imagej.net/Fiji) and data processed in Microsoft Excel.
Results
Our first goal was to optimise our protocol for minimum cytoplasm, and improved chromosome morphology in cell spread slides containing pollen mother cells (Fig. 1). Most crucial is the effect of fixation and maceration in the protocol. The best cell spreading and chromosome differentiation was obtained with the methanol—acetic acid fixative (Figs. 1H–I). The ethanol—acetic acid mixture, on the other hand, produces brighter staining of the cytoplasm and blurred chromosome boundaries (Figs. 1D–E), whereas Carnoy’s (ethanol—chloroform—acetic acid) resulted in an even more opaque cytoplasm in which chromosomes are hardly discernible (Figs. 1F–G). Further optimisation was obtained with the incubation of the anthers in pectolytic enzymes. Treatment of two hours resulted in well-spread PMCs (Fig. 1A). In contrast, three hours' treatments often resulted in damaged cells (Fig. 1B), an artefact that becomes more severe when the enzyme treatment was extended to 4–5 h (Fig. 1C).
Microscopic observations of pollen mother cells and pollen
The first meiotic prophase stage with discernible chromosomes in Musa is pachytene, in which homologous chromosome segments are fully paired. Chromosomes display a delicate pattern of numerous minor heterochromatic knobs or chromocenters in the euchromatic part and denser, brighter fluorescing segments in most heterochromatic pericentromeres. We measured the length of full pachytene complements in a few cells showing values of 207, 293, 329 and 339 µm, respectively. In pachytene cells of the ssp. malaccensis and var. breviformis varieties, we observed unpaired regions of the chromosomes (Figs. 2A, 2C) or longer unpaired segments (Fig. 2D), such as in “Rejang”. In ssp. malaccensis, we also detected a region with unpaired chromosomes that suggest a lack of homology or a pairing partner switch.
Chromosomes at diplotene are largely decondensed, forming diffuse networks of threads (Fig. 3A). Their axes are no longer distinguishable, and hence is this stage not suitable for establishing chromosome configurations. After the diffuse diplotene, chromosomes recondense and display characteristic chromosome configurations, most of which with chiasmata in both chromosome arms (ring bivalent) or in one arm (rod bivalents). Incidentally, we observed univalent pairs and configurations that resemble trivalents and quadrivalents or overlapping bivalents and/or univalents (Figs. 3B–F). In “Rejang”, we detected cell complements with several univalents (Figs. 3G–H). The average number of bivalents per cell in the ssp. malaccensis, var. zebrina, var. sumatrana and “Rejang” were 10.19, 10.43, 10.33 and 10.81, respectively (Table 2). Few of the cell complements of ssp. malaccensis, var. breviformis and “Rejang” clearly showed one or more univalents. In “Rejang” univalent pairs occurred at 0.44 per cell. Several cases of overlapping bivalents were noted in the ssp. malaccensis, var. zebrina and “Rejang”, structures that resemble alternate ring quadrivalents (Fig. 4A), “figure-8” like (Fig. 4B) and adjacent ring quadrivalents (Fig. 4C).
Chromosome segregation at anaphase I was in most cases balanced, forming two groups of 11 chromosomes in cell spreads of ssp. malaccensis, var. zebrina, var. sumatrana. In “Rejang”, we found unbalanced segregations (Table 3). Bridges and lagging chromosomes were incidentally found in ssp. malaccensis and “Rejang” (Figs. 5B–C). The very short metaphase II and anaphase II stages were only found in anthers of ssp. malaccensis. Eight pollen mother cells at metaphase II showed balanced sets of 11 + 11 chromosomes and three cells at anaphase II with four sets of four chromatids (11 + 11 + 11 + 11). Furthermore, in a sample of 16 cells at the tetrad stage in ssp. malaccensis, we counted one triad, six dyads and nine normal tetrads.
The lactophenol acid fuchsin staining of fixed anthers was used for establishing pollen morphology and size. In most cases, pollen displayed regularly shaped grains, most likely representing viable spores, but we also observed few shrunken, irregular unstained pollen grains (Figs. 6A, B). The percentages of normal stained and regular pollen amounted to 99.5, 99.8, 99.6, 98.7 and 77.7% for the ssp. malaccensis, var. breviformis, var. sumatrana, and var. zebrina and “Rejang”, respectively. Average pollen diameter varies from 85–95 µm in ssp. malaccensis to 100–115 µm in “Rejang”, in “Rejang”. We see a vast range of pollen size (Fig. 6).
Discussion
In this study, we optimised cell spreading conditions for six Indonesian bananas to establish clear interpretations of meiotic abnormalities. The starting point was using a technique that features short fixation, enzymatic cell wall digestion and maceration of the pollen mother cells, cell spreading followed by air-drying and finally, DAPI staining for high-resolution fluorescence microscopy. The most challenging hurdle was the opaque cytoplasm of microsporocytes, in which phenolic and polysaccharide compounds mask chromosomal details from observation. We found that methanol-acetic acid (3:1) rather than the standard ethanol acetic acid (3:1) mix decreases cytoplasmic background, although some granular background always remains [10]. Previous studies claimed the superior property of methanol for fixation and low cytoplasmic background in mouse and human lymphocytes [23]. Besides, Iovene et al. [19] used methanol instead of ethanol for improved cell spreading and well-differentiated morphology of tomato and potato pachytene complements. Bakry & Shepherd [5] also used a fixation of 1 part ethanol: 4 parts glacial acetic acid: 5 parts water for banana root tip material. Still, we could not test this method in our study. The second optimised step in this study was pectolytic enzymes' time to digest anther’s callose walls to obtain well-spread PMCs. The optimum incubation time of two hours was in the range of that used by Kantama et al. [20] but differed slightly in the methods of Adeleke et al. [1] and De Capdeville et al. [10], most likely by the use of different genotypes and age of the fixed material that stored up to months. In our experiment, we used relatively fresh material stored in ethanol 70% for no more than two months. Despite the protocol adjustments, we still keep some cytoplasmic background and more dense in “Pisang Klutuk” (M. balbisiana, BB) and “Pisang Kepok” (ABB) (data unpublished), which requires further adaptation of cell spreading conditions.
The first meiotic stage that we analysed was late pachytene, in which the total chromosome complements measured 207–339 µm, about ten times longer than their mitotic counterparts [32] and with a contraction in the range of most plant species [12]. The long pachytene chromosomes are excellent for studying the well-defined euchromatin/heterochromatin differentiation and pairing of structural chromosome rearrangements. The blue fluorescing DNA-specific DAPI is more appropriate to reveal fine details of the chromosomes [10, own study] than the protein-based staining methods [1]. Musa chromosomes show a characteristic heterochromatin pattern of numerous chromomeres, small heterochromatin knobs distributed in the distal and interstitial segments of the chromosomes, and larger and much brighter fluorescing segments in the pericentromere heterochromatin. Based on previous published genomic information [8, 25], we suggest that such chromomeres are islands of Copia retrotransposon clusters and that pericentromeres are sites enriched of Gypsy and other unclassified (satellite) repeats, regions known to be notoriously tricky in gap closure of the pseudomolecules genome assembly.
Pachytene complements are the primary sources for elucidating disturbances in pairing between homologous and homoeologous chromosomes. The late part of this stage (late pachytene) is most suitable for such analysis as chromosomes become detached from their densely clustered synizesis knot [28]. The first class of pairing abnormalities seen in our materials are the asynaptic regions in the ssp. malaccensis, var. breviformis and “Rejang” and were also mentioned in the study of pachytene spreads in a wild M. acuminana “Calcutta 4” by Adeleke et al. [1]. The most obvious explanation for such structural aberrations is heterozygosity for a paracentric (or less common pericentric) inversion. Other reasons include large deletions, or insertion duplications are very unlikely, as they are (sub)lethal or infrequent [13, 24]. If the assumed inversion is large enough, a loop can be formed, and if a crossover in the loop takes place, a dicentric chromosome pair and acentric fragment will be created, as can be seen in metaphase I—anaphase I/II cells of ssp. malaccensis (Fig. 5B), although the expected acentric fragment as previously seen in the triploid M. acuminata cv. “Hom” [20] was not detectable. Wilson [44,45,46] showed comparable anaphase bridges in camera lucida drawings of Musa pollen mother cells, but detailed interpretations were not given. However, Dodds [14] gave more extensive descriptions of such bridges and fragments in a diploid M. acuminata clone and concluded that such meiotic disturbances resulted from crossovers in heterozygous inversion segments. Shepherd [41] described in his monograph of Musa cytogenetics a large number of cases of inversion type bridges observed in many species and hybrids, making inversions common chromosome rearrangements in this genus, in both intraspecific and interspecific hybrids. Unequivocal criteria for identifying inversions were the presence of chromatid bridges associated with a specific fragment at anaphase I, which he interpreted as the result of crossing over between relatively inverted segments. Less clear is a proper explanation of the bridges when acentric fragments were minute or even missing, assuming that inversions were very small and nearly at the chromosome's distal end. As we never observed more than a single anaphase bridge in the ssp. malaccensis and “Rejang” assume that only a single inversion exists in these heterozygotes and thus will not have a severe negative effect on gamete fertility.
Translocations represent the second group of major structural chromosome rearrangements. The most common type is the interchange of a reciprocal translocation with two translocation chromosomes and their corresponding non-homologous chromosomes, forming a translocation complex at pachytene. Only in ssp. malaccensis, we observed an asynaptic region that may hint at a translocation breakpoint. A more accurate description of translocation complexes can be obtained by electron microscopic analysis of spread synaptonemal complex preparations [11]. Still, the low number of suitable pachytene meiocytes in an anther and the expected problems with hypotonic bursting of the dense cytoplasm made us refrain from using this technology. In the recent studies that used the sequencing database of M. acuminata ssp. malaccensis reverence chromosomes [26] and chromosome painting [43], a translocation event between chromosomes 1 and 4 was present in ssp. malaccensis. However, convincing proof for translocation heterozygosity in our material was expected from metaphase I complements. In the ssp. malaccensis and var. zebrina, and “Rejang”, we observed overlapping bivalents that may indicate alternate (zigzag oriented) quadrivalents. However, the occurrence of adjacent quadrivalents that form conspicuous configurations that lead to unbalanced spores were never found; neither did we find unbalanced chromosome numbers at anaphase I / II or many sterile pollen grains. A recent genetic study of ssp. malaccensis [2] showed homozygosity for a 14/41 translocation, which confirmed the lack of quadrivalents at diakinesis/metaphase I cells.
An interesting observation of “Rejang” is the occurrence of many univalents that point at partial synapsis or failure of chiasma formation. Indeed, examples of incomplete pairing were seen in the pachytene complements that at least partly could account for the observed univalents. The larger number of univalents is expected to lead to unbalanced gametes, and so to a wider variation in pollen size in the lactophenol acid fuchsin stained pollen preparations. The observed univalents suggest that this banana may be segmental polyploid. These univalents indicate a lack of homology, as observed in progenies of synthetic allodiploids of Brassica rapa and Raphanus sativus [33]. Further study of “Rejang” is needed to see if homoeologous differences of the parental genomes can explain the explained lack of pairing/recombination.
Our study found several examples of mitotic and meiotic restitutions leading to doubling of the chromosome numbers. Mitotic chromosome doubling was observed only once in a slide with 44 chromosomes at diakinesis in a diploid ‘AA’ cultivated banana, “Rejang”. Such a doubling of the chromosomes likely resulted from a premeiotic restitutional mitosis as previously reported in the triploid banana “Cavendish” and “Gros Michel” [36]. A second phenomenon is meiotic restitution in banana, which give rise to monads, dyads or triads at the tetrad stage of diploid banana, caused by first divisional restitution (FDR) or second division restitution (SDR) or a combination of both [14]. In the case of a triad, we assume the failure of anaphase II (SDR) in only one of the dyads. So, one daughter cell is unreduced while the other two smaller cells are haploid. In “Rejang” cells, chromosome doubling might be one of the explanations for the larger pollen size compared to other diploid bananas (Fig. 6). In polyploid plants, nuclear restitution is most likely due to unbalanced segregation between a group chromosome with two complement chromosomes and a group of single complement or the complete lack of anaphase I segregation (First division segregation, FDR). Moreover, meiotic restitution in diploids and polyploids can also occur by second division restitution, SDR, mostly by deficient spindle orientation at anaphase II [7, 37]. Considering these events, it is plausible to explain how triploid bananas might have resulted from hybridisation or crosses between diploid bananas [38].
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This research is part of a program entitled “The Indonesian banana: Protecting a staple food from Panama disease collapse and exploiting its genetic diversity for discovery research” between the Research Centre for Biology-Indonesian Institute of Sciences and Wageningen University & Research under Scientific Programme Indonesia—Netherlands (SPIN) join project. Banana research at WUR is supported by the Dutch Dioraphte Foundation Endowed Chair in Tropical Phytopathology at the WUR-Laboratory of Phytopathology.
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Ahmad, F., Poerba, Y.S., Kema, G.H.J. et al. Male meiosis and pollen morphology in diploid Indonesian wild bananas and cultivars. Nucleus 64, 181–191 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13237-021-00350-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13237-021-00350-7