Reconstruction pattern of the cell wall in Fagopyrum protoplast-derived hybrid cells

Abstract

The cell wall rebuilding is one of the first stage of protoplast development that enables further mitotic divisions and differentiation. Therefore, this work focuses on the comparison of the cell wall regeneration in the parental protoplasts of Fagopyrum tataricum, F. esculentum and the F. tataricum (+) F. esculentum hybrids, which are promising materials in terms of future breeding and research programmes. It is worth emphasizing that the preparation of buckwheat hybrids using electrofusion was described for the first time. The results indicate that cell wall rebuilding exhibited a common mechanism for parent protoplasts and the heterokaryon as all analysed cell wall components recognising arabinogalactan proteins (JIM13, JIM16), extensin (JIM20), xyloglucan (LM25) and pectins (LM20, LM5, LM6) were detected during the process of wall regeneration. However, there were certainly differences in the spatio-temporal appearance or disappearance of individual epitopes during the 72 h of the cell culture, which have been discussed in the paper.