Abstract
To establish an efficient screening system for new herbicides using plant cultured cells, responses of tobacco photomixotrophic cultured (PH) cells to various herbicides with different modes of action were surveyed by measuring the cell growth and ion conductivity in medium. The cells were cultured in Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium containing 0.7mg/L 2,4-D, 0.3mg/L kinetin and 30 g/L sucrose at $25^{\circ}C$ in the light (100 rpm). Chemicals were treated to suspension cultures of tobacco PH cells at the time of subculture. The cell growth and ion conductivity in the medium were investigated on 12 days after chemical treatment. The ion conductivity assay gave well correlated results to the cell growth inhibition data. The responses of tobacco PM cells were dependent on the modes of action of chemicals tested. Atrazine, an inhibitor of photosynthetic electron transport (PET), strongly inhibited both the cell membrane and cell growth ($IC_{50}$/, about 1 $\mu$M). Butachlor (an inhibitor of cell division), glufosinate (an inhibitor of amino acid biosynthesis), and fluridone (an inhibitor of carotenoid biosynthesis) showed a dose-dependent inhibition. However, Quinclorac, a herbicide with an auxin activity, did not affect the cell growth and ion leakage. These results suggested that tobacco PM cells is suitable materials for the simple screening of new herbicides such as PET, amino acid biosynthesis, ceil division inhibitors by measuring the cell growth and ion conductivity.
식물배양세포를 이용하여 효율적인 제초제 검정시스템을 확립하기 위하여 다른 작용기작을 가진 몇가지 제초제를 사용하여 담배 PM세포에 대한 반응성을 세포생장과 배지의 이온전도도를 측정하여 조사하였다. 담배 PM세포는 0.7 mg/L 2,4-D, 0.3 mg/L kinetin, 30 g/L sucrose를 함유한 MS배지에서 $25^{\circ}C$, 광조건에서 현탁배양 (100rpm)하였다 계대배양시 약제를 처리한 후 12일째의 세포생장과 배지의 이온전도도를 측정한 결과, 이온전도도 측정결과는 세포생장의 것과 높은 상관관계를 나타내었다. 담배 PM세포에 대한 각 화합물의 반응성은 약제의 작용기작을 반영하면서 다양하였다. PET 저해화합물인 atrazine은 담배 PM세포에 가장 강한 활성을 나타내었다 (IC50, 1 $\mu$M). GS 저해제인 glufosinate, 세포분열저해제인 butachlor, carotenoid 생합성저해제인 fluridone은 농도에 비례하여 저해활성을 나타내었다. 그러나 오옥신활성을 지닌다고 알려진 quinclorac은 억제활성을 나타내지 않았다. 따라서 배지의 이온 전도도 측정은 간편하면서 재현성이 좋은 신규 제초제의 탐색방법으로 유용할 것으로 시사된다.
