High-efficiency and Rapid Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation method using germinating rice seeds
2011
Lee, H.J., Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea | Abdula, Sailila E, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea | Jee, M.G., Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea | Jang, D.W., Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea | Cho, Y.G., Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
Rice is the most important crop as a model plant for functional genomics of monocotyledons. Rice is usually transformed using Agrobacterium tumefaciens. However, the transformation efficiency using previous method is still low. In this study, we established a new method by modifying the general Agrobacterium protocol especially in the inoculation and co-cultivation step. We directly inoculated Agrobacterium containing a CIPK15 gene under the control of CaMV 35S promoter and NOS terminator in the pCAM1300 vector into the pre-soaked seeds in N6D media for 24 hours. After 7 days of culture at 25℃, calli were formed on seeds cultured on the co-cultivation medium containing an antioxidant compound (1 mM dithiothreitol) and of Agrobacterium growth-inhibiting agent (3 mg/L silver nitrate). We obtained 35 and 22 transgenic plants in rice cultivars, Gopumbyeo and Ilpumbyeo, with increase of transformation efficiency by 30.4% and 22.6%, respectively compared to the general transformation method. The new method in this study would lead to reduction of substantial labor and time to generate transgenic plants.
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