The relationship between environmental stresses and the genome was investigated by examining the behaviour of repetitive DNA in response to lead or cadmium in two Bryophytes, differing from a physiological and an ecological point of view, namely the aquatic moss L. riparium and the terricolous moss E hygrometrica. Using different experimental approaches, a direct relationship was shown to exist in these two mosses between the metal-induced stress and repetitive DNA. In fact, in both organisms, metal treatment was accompanied by a selective amplification of some GC-rich repetitive DNA sequences forming peculiar agglomerates inside the nucleus; this amplification is quantitatively proportional to the time of exposure of the plants to the metals and stops upon removal of the metal from the culture medium. Results show that ribosomal DNA sequences are involved in this metal-induced repetitive DNA agglomerate formation, although they are not the only repetitive sequences present within the heterochromatic DNA agglomerates. The plasticity of the genome of the Bryophytes in response to external stimuli, and the fact that repetitive DNA is involved in this plasticity are discussed.

Plasticity of repetitive DNA in response to metal stress in Bryophytes / Bassi, Paola; A., Basile; Ferraro, Marina; M., Masi; D., Migliaccio; G., Morelli; E., Napolitano. - In: PLANT BIOSYSTEMS. - ISSN 1126-3504. - STAMPA. - 140:1(2006), pp. 80-86. [10.1080/11263500500511249]

Plasticity of repetitive DNA in response to metal stress in Bryophytes

BASSI, Paola;FERRARO, Marina;
2006

Abstract

The relationship between environmental stresses and the genome was investigated by examining the behaviour of repetitive DNA in response to lead or cadmium in two Bryophytes, differing from a physiological and an ecological point of view, namely the aquatic moss L. riparium and the terricolous moss E hygrometrica. Using different experimental approaches, a direct relationship was shown to exist in these two mosses between the metal-induced stress and repetitive DNA. In fact, in both organisms, metal treatment was accompanied by a selective amplification of some GC-rich repetitive DNA sequences forming peculiar agglomerates inside the nucleus; this amplification is quantitatively proportional to the time of exposure of the plants to the metals and stops upon removal of the metal from the culture medium. Results show that ribosomal DNA sequences are involved in this metal-induced repetitive DNA agglomerate formation, although they are not the only repetitive sequences present within the heterochromatic DNA agglomerates. The plasticity of the genome of the Bryophytes in response to external stimuli, and the fact that repetitive DNA is involved in this plasticity are discussed.
2006
repetitive dna variations; leptodictyum riparium; in situ hybridization; funaria hygrometrica; fluorochromes; metal stresses
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Plasticity of repetitive DNA in response to metal stress in Bryophytes / Bassi, Paola; A., Basile; Ferraro, Marina; M., Masi; D., Migliaccio; G., Morelli; E., Napolitano. - In: PLANT BIOSYSTEMS. - ISSN 1126-3504. - STAMPA. - 140:1(2006), pp. 80-86. [10.1080/11263500500511249]
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