Some species of Spirogyra living in streams can anchor to the substratum by differentiating a rhizoid from a terminal cell of a filament. Rhizoid differentiation occurs in the light but not in the dark. When a filament of Spirogyra sp. competent for rhizoid differentiation was incubated in a medium containing 0.1% saponin, terminal cells were released one by one, forming single cells. Single cells effectively differentiated to be rhizoids when saponin in the incubation medium was removed. The single-cell system developed in the present study seems suitable for analysis of gene expression during rhizoid differentiation of Spirogyra.
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