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Assessment of DNA methylation changes in tissue culture of Brassica napus

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Plant tissue culture, as a fundamental technique for genetic engineering, has great potential of epigenetic variation, of which DNA methylation is well known of importance to genome activity. We assessed DNA methylation level of explants during tissue culture of Brassica napus (cv. Yangyou 9), using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) assisted quantification. By detecting methylation levels in hypocotyls cultured in mediums with different concentrations of hormones, we found dissected tissue cultured with 0.1 mg/L 2,4-D and 1.0 mg/L 6-BA, presented the lowest methylation level and highest induction rate of callus (91.0%). Different time point of cultured explants also showed obvious methylation variations, explants cultured after 6 and 21 days exhibited methylation ratios of 4.33 and 8.07%, respectively. Whereas, the methylation ratio raised to 38.7% after 30 days cultivation, indicating that methylation level of hypocotyls ranged during tissue culture. Moreover, we observed that the methylation level in callus is the highest during regeneration of rapeseed, following the regenerated plantlets and hypocotyls. This paper indicated the function of hormones and differentiation of callus is relevant to the methylation levels during tissue culture.

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  1. Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, China

    Y. Gao, L. Ran, Y. Kong, J. Jiang & Y. Wang

  2. Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    V. Sokolov

  3. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry, St. Petersburg, 190000, Russia

    V. Sokolov

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Gao, Y., Ran, L., Kong, Y. et al. Assessment of DNA methylation changes in tissue culture of Brassica napus . Russ J Genet 50, 1186–1191 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795414100032

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