Cytokinin Antagonist Activity of Substituted Phenethylamines in Plant Cell Culture

AUTOR(ES)

Christou, Paul

RESUMO

A series of structurally related substituted phenethylamines shows extreme toxicity toward wild-type callus tissue cultures of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), soybean (Glycine max), corn (Zea mays), and sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.), but tobacco crown gall cultures are resistant to the compounds. The essential components that result in toxicity of the phenethylamines include one aromatic hydroxyl and one primary aliphatic amino group. A series of attenuated crown gall cultures, generated by transformation of tobacco with various modified Agrobacterium strains, has been used to demonstrate that the resistance of crown galls to the phenethylamines is due to the expression in these tissues of isopentenyl transferase, a first step in cytokinin biosynthesis. The toxicity of the compounds to tissue cultures is very rapid, but can be overcome by prior exposure of the calli to exogenous cytokinin. Because of the relationships we have observed between cytokinins and these compounds, we propose that the substituted phenethylamines may represent a class of chemicals that can be used as specific probes to further an understanding of cytokinin metabolism in plant tissues.

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