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. 2017 Jul 20;6:e29107. doi: 10.7554/eLife.29107

Figure 2. Arbuscocyte-specific expression of DIS and RAM2 is sufficient for arbuscule branching.

Promoter activity indicated by nuclear localized yellow fluorescence in colonized transgenic L. japonicus wild-type roots transformed with constructs containing a 1.5 kb promoter fragment of DIS (A) or a 2.275 kb promoter fragment of RAM2 (B) fused to NLS-YFP. (A-B) Red fluorescence resulting from expression of pSbtM1:SP-mCherry labels the apoplastic space surrounding pre-penetration apparatuus (PPAs) and fungal structures, thereby evidencing the silhouette of these structures. a Colonized root, b non-colonized part of colonized root, c PPAs, (white arrow heads indicate the silhouette of fungal intraradical hyphae) d small arbuscules, e fully developed arbuscules f collapsed arbuscules. Merged confocal and bright field images of whole mount roots are shown. (C-D) Transgenic complementation of dis-1 (C) and ram2-1 (D) hairy roots with the respective wild-type gene driven by the PT4 promoter. The mutant gene was used as negative control. White arrowheads indicate arbuscules. (E-F) Quantification of AM colonization in transgenic roots shown in (C-D). Different letters indicate significant differences (ANOVA; posthoc Tukey; n = 15; p≤0.001) among genotypes for each fungal structure separately. Int. hyphae, intraradical hyphae. (E): F2,12 = 26.53 (total), F2,12 = 46.97 (arbuscules), F2,12 = 27.42 (vesicles). (F) F2,12 = 341.5 (total), F2,12 = 146.3 (arbuscules), F2,12 = 35.86 (vesicles).

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.29107.008

Figure 2.

Figure 2—figure supplement 1. DIS and RAM2 promoter activity in wild type and dis and ram2 mutants.

Figure 2—figure supplement 1.

GUS activity in colonized transgenic L. japonicus wild-type and mutant roots transformed with constructs containing a 1.5 kb promoter fragment of DIS (A) or a 2.275 kb promoter fragment of RAM2 (B) fused to the uidA gene. Left micrographs: bright field channel to detect GUS-staining, middle micrographs: GFP-channel to detect (WGA)-AlexaFluor488 stained fungal structures. Right micrographs: Merge. (C-D) Single optical section of z-stack shown in Figure 2Aa (C) and Figure 2Ba (D) showing that DIS and RAM2 promoter activity is detected exclusively in the cortex.